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1.1 ! root 1: ! 2: ! 3: null Device Driver null ! 4: ! 5: ! 6: ! 7: ! 8: The ``bit bucket'' ! 9: ! 10: ! 11: All data written to the special file /dev/null is thrown away ! 12: (sent to the ``bit bucket''). This is useful, for example, to ! 13: test a program's side effects while ignoring its output. ! 14: ! 15: A read from file /dev/null returns end of file (zero bytes of ! 16: data). The shell sh uses /dev/null as input to background ! 17: processes. ! 18: ! 19: ***** Files ***** ! 20: ! 21: /dev/null ! 22: ! 23: ***** See Also ***** ! 24: ! 25: device drivers, sh ! 26: ! 27: ! 28: ! 29: ! 30: ! 31: ! 32: ! 33: ! 34: ! 35: ! 36: ! 37: ! 38: ! 39: ! 40: ! 41: ! 42: ! 43: ! 44: ! 45: ! 46: ! 47: ! 48: ! 49: ! 50: ! 51: ! 52: ! 53: ! 54: ! 55: ! 56: ! 57: ! 58: ! 59: ! 60: ! 61: ! 62: ! 63: ! 64: COHERENT Lexicon Page 1 ! 65: ! 66:
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