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Subject: RE: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 17:16:31 +0200
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From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias DOT Morche AT P7S1Produktion DOT de>
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Public Mailing Lists wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> Don't spread misinformation.  Cygwin is a Unix environment
>> emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about
>> "depending on your installation").
>> 
>> 
> here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation:
> $ ls /dev
> ls: /dev: No such file or directory
...

/dev/null is there, even if /dev isn't.

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