Re: howto recreate /dev/null ?
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:35:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> what's redirecting to '/dev/null' good for? here's
> an example. if you're not running 'fetchmail' as its
> own background daemon, to yank your email from various
> servers, you can have cron do it for you. the thing is,
> you get lots of tripe in the output. it tells you all
> about how each message contains X octets, and how it's
> downloading the data... none of which you really need.
>
> 15 * * * * fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
Not to be mean or anything, but FYI fetchmail can be made
silent with "-s":
-s, --silent work silently
But then again, you probably already knew that. :)
> you can also use /dev/null for STDIN as in
> somecommand < /dev/null
> in which case for ANY 'read' that the command does
> from STDIN, it'll get EOF forever.
Yup, just like the following line demonstrates nicely: :)
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> < /dev/null
Sven
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