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From: de5@de5.CTD.ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
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Date: 10 Sep 90 15:50:48 GMT
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In article <8720002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, oscarh@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Oscar Herrera) writes:
>||Is there an equivalent 'pipe' like entity to /dev/null ?
>
>>		touch bitbucket
>		chmod +x bitbucket
>
>	Then    
>		ll | bitbucket      

Even better, use `true'.  It's already there.

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Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support