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From: damm@freja.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
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Date: 26 Sep 88 14:19:36 GMT
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maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

>If one wants to run a command with output getting discarded, the obvious
>solution is:

>	command > /dev/null

Poor guy! On this machine we've got a user named null! He just had the bad 
luck to be christened Niels Ull.