more unix jokes - /dev/null

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.ARPA
Wed Sep 21 06:00:44 AEST 1988


In article <811 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>>	command > /dev/null
>    command >&-

But that is not equivalent.  In particular, an error will occur when
output is attempted to fd#1.



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