ln

Create a sim link.

The other choice is to create a file named that. All the data will go to that file, and I’ll have to delete its contents once per week. There are two ways to verify that a symlink was created: use “ls -l” or “ls -F”. The @ symbol means sim link.

To make the rrcs mail go away instead of to a file do:

  ln -s /dev/null ~/Mail/spools/in-rrcs

[gmcmillan@redd2212 spools]% ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 gmcmilla gmcmilla 9 Jan 10 14:51 in-rrcs -> /dev/null [gmcmillan@redd2212 spools]% ls -F in-rrcs@ [gmcmillan@redd2212 spools]% ls-F in-rrcs@

/dev/null is the place that is nowhere. When you write something to dev/null, it disappears. When you read from dev/null, you don’t get anything. It’s the “I don’t care place.” Sometimes you want to use a command that creates a lot of output, but you only want to see if the command works. Therefore, you route the output of the command to dev/null.