Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:09:55 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrej Borsenkow X-X-Sender: To: Joerg Fischer cc: Subject: Re: Problem with shell commands In-Reply-To: <200107150838.f6F8cBc24432@david.siemens.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Joerg Fischer wrote: > > you should write (csh) > > view % & < /dev/null >& /dev/null ... > The above /dev/null trick doesn't work for Cygwin (invalid null command). > I am very surprised that this works anywhere else. The correct is view % < /dev/null >& /dev/null & & is command separator, just as newline or ; so your example is interpreted as two commands, the second one with just redirections (that's about null command). -andrej -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/