Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!ncsuvx!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!debra From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <8236@alice.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 21:22:21 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl>Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP () Organization: University of Antwerp Lines: 12 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 > Try this for the command "cat" with your message as input. Doesn't work, right? :-) Won't work with this reply either.