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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
by 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
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