Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!nott-cs!anw From: anw@nott-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <581@tuck.nott-cs.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 14:43:38 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> Reply-To: anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) Organization: Department of Mathematics, The University, NOTTINGHAM, NG7 2RD, UK. Lines: 18 In article <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: > [ how to simulate ] > command > /dev/null > [ without using /dev/null ? ] Silly season strikes again? But there are many near-solutions: command | grep -v '' # or adjust flags as necessary command | tail -0 # or use sed or awk or ... command | tr -cds '' command | [ ] command | # if at end of script each of which is deficient in ways I'll leave others to find and correct. -- Andy Walker, Maths Dept., Nott'm Univ., UK. anw@maths.nott.ac.uk