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From: rns@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
Message-ID: <3841@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 90 19:52:52 GMT
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In <8720001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> oscarh@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Oscar Herrera) writes:

>Is there an equivalent 'pipe' like entity to /dev/null ?
>What I'd like to do is something like this 
>	anycommand | bitbucket

I've seen responses of
	anycommand | true
and
	anycommand | cat >/dev/null

What about
	anycommand | :
?

I'm not sure if this is shell-specific, but it works with the Bourne
shell and the C shell, at least on our system.

(You mean you thought ":" was a comment indicator?  Try

	: > somefilename

)

-- Rick Schubert (rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)