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Article #1046Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
From: Randal Schwartz
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 20:13
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 20:13
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In article <8720002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, oscarh@hpdmd48 (Oscar Herrera) writes: | ||Is there an equivalent 'pipe' like entity to /dev/null ? | ||What I'd like to do is something like this | || anycommand | bitbucket | || | ||Oscar Herrera | ||---------- | | Well, I found the answer to my own question. | | touch bitbucket | chmod +x bitbucket | | Then | ll | bitbucket | | works well. Until the ll output pipe fills up. My first suggestion is "why?" For example, if I wanted the ll output to go nowhere, I would type: ll >/dev/null Second, if you *really* need a process, use cat >/dev/null as in: ll | cat >/dev/null yucky yucky kludge. But it fits your requested parameters. Just another Unix hacker, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ucbvax!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ??? Message-ID: <1990Sep11.201316.16028@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 11 Sep 90 20:13:16 GMT References: <8720001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <8720002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: oscarh@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Oscar Herrera)