Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:9456 comp.bugs.4bsd:1029 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!ig!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!freja!damm From: damm@freja.dk (Kristian Damm Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <4092@freja.dk> Date: 26 Sep 88 14:19:36 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <1414@star.cs.vu.nl> Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK Lines: 9 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.