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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
Message-ID: <8237@alice.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 22:05:35 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <8236@alice.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <8236@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes:
 >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.
 >

How about this one?

	command | grep -v '^'
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com