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From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Cc: Jeff Laine <wtf.jlaine@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Gary Hartl <ghartl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Snow in my Server
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Eitan Adler wrote:
> Jeff Laine wrote:
>> Just mv teh snowflakes to /dev/null ^_-
> You can't mv things to /dev/null
>  Operation not supported

Hmm, but you can cat /dev/null to something ...
so, a true UNIX guru should be able to do
something like:

find *snow* | xargs "cat /dev/null > $1"

Of course, that doesn't work, either.  Shows
why csh(1) is considered bad for snow removal,
as the story, maybe, goes....

Joy to the world,

Kevin Kinsey
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