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



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