Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ncar!gatech!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null Keywords: poor man's Unix Message-ID: <8237@alice.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 22:05:35 GMT References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1049@sybase.sybase.com> <8236@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 20 In article <8236@alice.UUCP>, debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) writes: >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 >> >Try this for the command "cat" with your message as input. >Doesn't work, right? :-) > >Won't work with this reply either. > How about this one? command | grep -v '^' -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com