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The only one who can tell me something is N years away is someone who just stepped out of a time machine. I see no time machine, I pipe to dev null.

• unwind 15y ago
  You cannot pipe to dev null, since it's a device, not a process. So, to summarize in shell-like syntax, you can redirect your output to /dev/null, as in $ me > /dev/null but you can't sensibly use a pipe like so: $ me | /dev/null This has been a message from your friendly neighborhood Unix fundamentalism/literalism chapter.
  • mkramlich 15y ago
    but you had no problem with the time machine. only on HN.
  • cbr 15y ago
    $ sudo cp /bin/cat /dev/null $ echo test | /dev/null test (this doesn't actually work)