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Old 03-07-2011
Sending awk output to nothing?

How can I direct awk output to go nowhere? I can write the data to a file easy enough or print it on the screen. But for this particular command I don't actually want the data and I don't want to create a file. I just want the data discarded.

Thanks in advance
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Old 03-07-2011
Why awk if you are not interested in output? Just don't select or 'whatever'.
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Old 03-07-2011
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Originally Posted by MrEddy
How can I direct awk output to go nowhere? I can write the data to a file easy enough or print it on the screen. But for this particular command I don't actually want the data and I don't want to create a file. I just want the data discarded.
Could you be more specific? Could you give an example?
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Old 03-07-2011
If you really dont want the data why are you using 'awk' command.

If you still want to send output to nowhere
try

your awk command > /dev/null
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