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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
Message-ID: <1561@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Date: 28 Sep 88 12:35:13 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> <4092@freja.dk>
Reply-To: sean@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Sean McLinden)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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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.

He'd be worse off if his SysOP put his home directory in "/dev".