more unix jokes - /dev/null
George Kyriazis
kyriazis at rpics
Sat Sep 24 12:07:06 AEST 1988
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
>
Hmm.. What about
command | vax
or even better
command | make -s
with an appropriate null Makefile...
George Kyriazis
kyriazis at turing.cs.rpi.edu
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