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Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:09:55 +0400 (MSD)
From: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej DOT Borsenkow AT mow DOT siemens DOT ru>
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To: Joerg Fischer <jf505 AT yahoo DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Problem with shell commands
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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


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