pipe equivalent to /dev/null ???
Oscar Herrera
oscarh at hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
Wed Sep 12 00:52:24 AEST 1990
|A more reasonable method would be to use "|cat >/dev/null", though the
|result is the same as a simple ">/dev/null". Why did you want the
|pipe, anyway?
|
|Les Mikesell
| les at chinet.chi.il.us
|----------
Thanks for all the responses. I wanted to use a pipe because
I wanted to bitbucket the output of an RMBUX command. It turns
out that RMBUX programmatic output redirection requires a
statement like PRINTER IS "| ...
involving a pipe. The final solution I used was
PRINTER IS "| cat >/dev/null"
Oscar Herrera
oscarh at hpdmmad
More information about the Comp.unix.shell
mailing list