The only one who can tell me something is N years away is someone who just stepp...

unwind · on Dec 20, 2011

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.

jefftk · on Dec 20, 2011

    $ sudo cp /bin/cat /dev/null
    $ echo test | /dev/null
    test

(this doesn't actually work)

mkramlich · on Dec 20, 2011

but you had no problem with the time machine. only on HN.