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Article #1020Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
From: Chris Calabrese
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 13:11
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 1990 13:11
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How about:
... | cat > /dev/null
Always works for me.
Short of that, it should be a trivial C program.
Something like:
main() {
char buffer[1024];
while(! read(0, buffer, 1024))
continue;
}
Name: Christopher J. Calabrese
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!ulysses!ulysses.att.com!cjc From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ??? Message-ID: <13722@ulysses.att.com> Date: 10 Sep 90 13:11:23 GMT References: <8720001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Sender: netnews@ulysses.att.com Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18