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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Message-ID: <8541@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 20 Sep 88 20:00:44 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> <811@philmds.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <811@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>>	command > /dev/null
>    command >&-

But that is not equivalent.  In particular, an error will occur when
output is attempted to fd#1.