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Re: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]


On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, 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

A better test would've been "ls -l /dev/null".

> It seems that the entire /dev directory is missing. And yes: I have
> installed Cygwin with the regular setup program. Maybe, you have to
> select a specific package in order to get /dev/null.
>
> It might be interesting to know what you have to do in order to get
> /dev.

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4676548>.
	Igor
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