Re: can't pipe to /dev/null ?

[Rev. Joe Doyle Ardent]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:09:31PM -0600, Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> >I think variant with cat is better, if you want without it
> >better will be
> >devnull: /dev/null
> 
> the latter works, thanks, Nik,
> 
> If you you have a minute, say why the cat step is better than just /dev/null
> 
        Because /dev/null is not a program (it's a file), and cat is.  
You should only pipe to programs.


-Joe

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