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From: kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
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Date: 24 Sep 88 02:07:06 GMT
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In article <192@bales.UUCP> nat@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@turing.cs.rpi.edu
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