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Re: redirection to /dev/NULL not working in cygwin-1.5.7-1
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:31:04 -0500
- Subject: Re: redirection to /dev/NULL not working in cygwin-1.5.7-1
- References: <200402011817.i11IHmCk048757@addr23.addr.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:17:48AM -0800, Dmitry Stupakov wrote:
>I just upgraded to the latest 1.5.7-1:
>$ uname -va
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 perun 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004年01月30日 19:32 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>
>and noticed that my scripts which use redirection to /dev/NULL stopped
>working (they worked with the previous version 1.5.5;
>$ /usr/bin/perl /d/home/.fetchyahoo/fetchyahoo.pl > /dev/NULL bash: /dev/NULL: No such file or directory
>
>Does anybody else have this problem?
You were relying on a cygwin bug. It's '/dev/null' not '/dev/NULL'.
cgf
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