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From: | Lewis Hyatt <lhyatt AT princeton DOT edu> |
Subject: | Re: Whither /dev/null ? |
Date: | Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:13:01 -0400 |
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> I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the > scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users > create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because > every script would have to check for this... > > Any advice? > Puzzled about nothing. > J > > Did you try it without doing mkdir /dev first? It should still work fine. Lewis AT LDH-Laptop ~ $ ls -l /dev ls: cannot access /dev: No such file or directory Lewis AT LDH-Laptop ~ $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 Lewis None 1, 3 Sep 14 11:12 /dev/null -Lewis -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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