more unix jokes - /dev/null

Chet Ramey chet at pirate.CWRU.EDU
Thu Sep 29 05:08:18 AEST 1988


In article <4092 at freja.dk> damm at freja.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen) writes:
>maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>
>>If one wants to run a command with output getting discarded, the obvious
>>solution is:

>>	command > /dev/null

>Poor guy! On this machine we've got a user named null! He just had the bad 
>luck to be christened Niels Ull.

The guy that runs the Computer Science department machines here is named
Dev (he's Indian).  Many's the time we've talked about surprising him with
a new home directory (/dev/garg).  We have to get these two together...

Chet

| Chet Ramey            chet at cwjcc.CWRU.EDU    chet at alpha.CES.CWRU.EDU
|
|		Just another jerk takin' pride in his work...



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