more unix jokes - /dev/null

Sean McLinden sean at cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU
Wed Sep 28 22:35:13 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.

He'd be worse off if his SysOP put his home directory in "/dev".



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