Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!ncsuvx!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!debra
From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
Message-ID: <8236@alice.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 21:22:21 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> 
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: University of Antwerp
Lines: 12

In article <192@bales.UUCP> nat@bales.UUCP (Nathaniel Stitt) writes:
>Re: How to simulate "command > /dev/null" without a /dev/null.
>
>How about:
>
>	command | grep i_hope_this_does_not_appear_in_the_output
>
Try this for the command "cat" with your message as input.
Doesn't work, right? :-)

Won't work with this reply either.