Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:31:04 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: redirection to /dev/NULL not working in cygwin-1.5.7-1 Message-ID: <20040201183104.GA23348@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200402011817.i11IHmCk048757@addr23.addr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402011817.i11IHmCk048757@addr23.addr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 10:17:48AM -0800, Dmitry Stupakov wrote: >I just upgraded to the latest 1.5.7-1: >$ uname -va >CYGWIN_NT-5.1 perun 1.5.7(0.109/3/2) 2004-01-30 19:32 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > >and noticed that my scripts which use redirection to /dev/NULL stopped >working (they worked with the previous version 1.5.5; >$ /usr/bin/perl /d/home/.fetchyahoo/fetchyahoo.pl > /dev/NULL bash: /dev/NULL: No such file or directory > >Does anybody else have this problem? You were relying on a cygwin bug. It's '/dev/null' not '/dev/NULL'. cgf -- 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/