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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Keywords: poor man's Unix
Message-ID: <1414@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 19 Sep 88 11:53:53 GMT
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Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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If one wants to run a command with output getting discarded, the obvious
solution is:

	command > /dev/null

But what would you do if you happened to have no such device? :-)
Is the intended still possible?

Yes! (Better use the Bourne shell.)


	command 1< /etc/passwd 2<&1

:-)
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