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Re: dev/null
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: dev/null
- From: "Soren Andersen" <soren at wonderstorm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:09:03 -0500
- Reply-to: soren at wonderstorm dot com
On 6 Jan 2001, an entity purporting to be Gerrit P. Haase
[Gerrit P. Haase <gerrit.haase@t-online.de>] wrote [regarding Re: dev/null]
> > Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > > I created a dev/null, but then i got this error:
> > > # of unexpected failures 2
> > > WARNING: find_version failed:
> > > couldn't read file "/dev/null": permission denied
One thing that I have not read anybody explain yet, in this thread: the
WinDOS system counterpart to UNI* 'dev/null' is simply 'nul' (or 'NUL'). If
you need a null file to redirect IN to a command I guess you'd use that. I
never try to redirect out to /dev/nul in Cygwin or otherwise, anyway --
although scripts generated by others need to be accomodated. But
manually, I just use 'nul'.
soren andersen
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