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From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
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Date: 10 Sep 90 13:11:23 GMT
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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;
	}
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