Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9322 comp.bugs.4bsd:1010 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Message-ID: <8541@smoke.ARPA> Date: 20 Sep 88 20:00:44 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> <811@philmds.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 5 In article <811@philmds.UUCP> leo@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.