From: stefan_trcek AT abas DOT de (Stefan Trcek)
Subject: /dev/null in portable shell-script
2 Dec 1996 12:40:45 -0800
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Is there a portable solution to handle redirection to '/dev/null' in
shell scripts?
In MKS-ksh I get it work for 'nul', but these shell scripts are not
portable.  Will bash for NT do it better or is there any other
workaround?

Stefan Trcek
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