Re^2: how can i send data to /dev/null ?

If for some reason, someone wants to write to /dev/null and wants portability, it's good to use File::Spec

open( my $null, ">", File::Spec->devnull ) 
    or die "Couldn't open null device";
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I could see this potentially being useful if testing some code that takes a filehandle, but where one doesn't actually want to be writing anything to disk.

-xdg

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