The current MKS Toolkit shells will recognize /dev/null, /dev/nul, or null as a null device. The KornShell prior to MKS Toolkit 6.1 did not recognize /dev/null.
If portability issues arise with Toolkit versions previous to 6.1, the following script offers a suggestion on how to address them.
SYS=$(uname)
case “$SYS” in
DOS|Windows_95|Windows_98|Windows_NT)
DEVNULL=nul;;
*)
DEVNULL=/dev/null;;
esac
echo "This doesn't show up on the screen" > $DEVNULL
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