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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:31:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: redirection to /dev/NULL not working in cygwin-1.5.7-1
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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

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