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.