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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers need help with mailx Post 302603643 by Corona688 on Thursday 1st of March 2012 03:05:04 PM
Old 03-01-2012
I think they intended : | mailx ... since a : on the front just runs the builtin do-nothing : command.

However you can also do mailx ... </dev/null to avoid needing a pipe.

This has the same effect as redirecting an empty file into it.
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