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From: rogers@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Black hole file
Message-ID: <23@ofc.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 89 15:38:18 GMT
References: <498@sdrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (H. L. Rogers)
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia, Columbia, SC
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In article <498@sdrc.UUCP> scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
>
>	ls -l >blackhole ; cat blackhole
>
>I get nothing.  ls -l blackhole shows it has a reasonable size,
>but even od just shows a few zeros.

Uh, it works on my 5.2 system.  File blackhole shows 0
size for itself, but an ls -l of the parent directory reveals
a size equivalent to the number of characters sent to the
screen from the ls -l command.
-- 
HL Rogers    (hl.rogers@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM)