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From: chet@pirate.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
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Date: 28 Sep 88 19:08:18 GMT
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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.

The guy that runs the Computer Science department machines here is named
Dev (he's Indian).  Many's the time we've talked about surprising him with
a new home directory (/dev/garg).  We have to get these two together...

Chet

| Chet Ramey            chet@cwjcc.CWRU.EDU    chet@alpha.CES.CWRU.EDU
|
|		Just another jerk takin' pride in his work...