/dev/null
Meanings
name
- A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, that discards all data written to it and yields no output, always being as an empty file when read.
- Nowhere; often suggests an intent to ignore specific correspondence.
Word forms
Etymology
From Unix operating systems, where /dev (the Unix directory containing device files) contains a null entry representing no device.
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