NULL(7) DOMAIN/IX SYS5 NULL(7)
NAME
null - the null file
DESCRIPTION
Data written on a null special file is discarded.
Read operations from a null special file always return zero
bytes.
The output of a command is written to the special file
/dev/null when the command is executed for its side effects
and not for its output.
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