more unix jokes - /dev/null

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <8236 at alice.UUCP>, debra at alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
 >In article <192 at bales.UUCP> nat at bales.UUCP (Nathaniel Stitt) writes:
 >>Re: How to simulate "command > /dev/null" without a /dev/null.
 >>
 >>How about:
 >>
 >>	command | grep i_hope_this_does_not_appear_in_the_output
 >>
 >Try this for the command "cat" with your message as input.
 >Doesn't work, right? :-)
 >
 >Won't work with this reply either.
 >

How about this one?

	command | grep -v '^'
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				--Andrew Koenig
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