<snip> > > Note, Jacques, that /dev/null doesn't do anything useful here:-) > Sorry, thanks for pointing that out. It should have been /dev/zero in order to fill it with \x00's. /dev/zero provides the null character \x00, whereas /dev/null is used as the bit bucket to send unwanted data to the binary Gods (i.e. ls *.sh *.txt *.gzip 2>/dev/null to redirect errors to the bit bucket thus only seeing successful output to the screen). <snip> > Cheers > John > Jacques B.
