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> From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se>
> Date: 21 Dec 2004 08:11:17 GMT
> 
> >> "cat file >/dev/null"?
> 
> > This reads _and_ writes the file.  I want something that just reads
> > it.
> 
> It doesn't write it to disk. At least I hope so.

In fact, it doesn't do anything it all: it is smart enough to see that
stdout is redirected to the null device, and exits immediately.  So
it's no good for a test I wanted to do.

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