Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:31:32 -0800 From: "Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent" <ardent@nebcorp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't pipe to /dev/null ? Message-ID: <20030319183132.GA12094@nebcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030319120816.02e98488@mail.go2france.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030319111153.02415060@mail.go2france.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030319111153.02415060@mail.go2france.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030319120816.02e98488@mail.go2france.com>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:09:31PM -0600, Len Conrad wrote: > > >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 > Because /dev/null is not a program (it's a file), and cat is. You should only pipe to programs. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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