Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9477 comp.bugs.4bsd:1035 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!sean 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. Lines: 12 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".