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by masklinn 1560 days ago
The program’s objective was to output the information, not to ensure that a user read it. Redirecting to `/dev/null` is a valid and common use of a program warranting no warning, so is running a program, collecting its log, then ultimately discarding it having never looked at it (in fact it’s the norm of well-behaved and solid programs).