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From: jbr0@cbnews.att.com (joseph.a.brownlee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.122243.5246@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 12:22:43 GMT
References: <8720001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <3841@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <3841@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, rns@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Rick
Schubert) writes:
> 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.

Yes, that works, and it works in the Korn shell as well.  At least in the
context shown above, it is logically equivalent to the "anycommand | true"
case.

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