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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 20:36:17 +0000
From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
To: Damien =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=E9bault?= <damien.thebault@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>,
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Subject: Re: redirecting stdout of no/empty command
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2012-01-06 20:07:35 +0100, Damien Thébault:
[...]
> (It's not affecting me much since when I need to have empty input, I
> use cat /dev/null or echo -n "")
[...]

The usual way to do it is:

: > foo

-- 
Stephane