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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.104003@osf.org>
Date: 11 Sep 90 14:40:02 GMT
References: <8720001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <8720002@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1990Sep11.013805.3594@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1990Sep11.013805.3594@chinet.chi.il.us>,
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
|> 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 ?
|> A more reasonable method would be to use "|cat >/dev/null", though
the
|> result is the same as a simple ">/dev/null".

If you want to save keystrokes at the expense of compute time:

	|sed d

Not relevant if you are putting it in a script, though.

(several :-), by the way).
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