From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 10: 9:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE0337B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:09:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA4843F93 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:09:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 7BE34EF908 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:53:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id EE6305D009 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F86C5D008 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:13:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from tx0-go2france-c.Go2France.com [24.242.169.51] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A6D0B7700EE; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:28:32 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030319120816.02e98488@mail.go2france.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:09:31 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: can't pipe to /dev/null ? In-Reply-To: <20030319173306.GB99728@asu.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030319111153.02415060@mail.go2france.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030319111153.02415060@mail.go2france.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I think variant with cat is better, if you want without it >better will be >devnull: /dev/null the latter works, thanks, Nik, If you you have a minute, say why the cat step is better than just /dev/null Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message