Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9467 comp.bugs.4bsd:1032 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!cwjcc!pirate!chet From: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <93@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Date: 28 Sep 88 19:08:18 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> <4092@freja.dk> Sender: news@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) Organization: CWRU Andrew R. Jennings Computing Center Lines: 20 In article <4092@freja.dk> damm@freja.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen) writes: >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. The guy that runs the Computer Science department machines here is named Dev (he's Indian). Many's the time we've talked about surprising him with a new home directory (/dev/garg). We have to get these two together... Chet | Chet Ramey chet@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU chet@alpha.CES.CWRU.EDU | | Just another jerk takin' pride in his work...