Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!imagine!rpics!kyriazis From: kyriazis@rpics (George Kyriazis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <1247@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 24 Sep 88 02:07:06 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl>Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) Organization: RPI CS Dept. Lines: 23 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 > Hmm.. What about command | vax or even better command | make -s with an appropriate null Makefile... George Kyriazis kyriazis@turing.cs.rpi.edu ------------------------------