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In some operating systems, the null device is a device file that discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. This device is called /dev/null on Unix and Unix-like systems, NUL: or NUL on CP/M and DOS (internally DEVNUL), nul on newer Windows systems[1] (internally DeviceNull on Windows NT), NIL: on Amiga operating systems,[2] and NL: on OpenVMS.[3] In Windows Powershell, the equivalent is $null.[4] It provides no data to any process that reads from it, yielding EOF immediately.[5] In IBM DOS/360, OS/360 (MFT, MVT), OS/390 and z/OS operating systems, such files would be assigned in JCL to DD DUMMY.

To discard standard output completely on Linux, redirect the standard output to /dev/null. Redirecting to /dev/null causes data to be completely discarded and erased. $ cat file /dev/null. Note: redirecting to /dev/null does not erase the content of the file but it only discards the content of the standard output. Sending data into the void with /dev/null. Flickr / macinate. Unix systems make it easy to make output that you don't want to see simply disappear. Toss output into the void. Send errors in one. Aug 10, 2015  For instance, 'date /dev/null' will write the 'date' command's output to /dev/null as if it were a file. No output will be seen; that data is permanently gone. Any data that is written to /dev/null is not recoverable. When using /dev/null, applications perceive an I/O operation, although no I/O operations occur on the hardware. Hi all, can someone help me with the next redirection? I want to redirect the stdout+stderr of a command to the same file (this i can do by prog & file) but in addition i want to redirect only the stderr to a different file. How can i do this please? Now the porblem is that when i run the script the import log appears on the scre The UNIX and Linux Forums The UNIX and Linux Forums. Now the porblem is that when i run the script the import log appears on the screen even if i direct the output of import to /dev/null. Imp '/ as sysdba' file. And I need to redirect it's output to /dev. icon type='bash'How do I redirect output and errors to /dev/null under bash / sh shell scripting? How do I redirect the output of stderr to stdout, and then redirect this combined output to /dev/null device? Results in variable output containing the process' output from both stdout and stderr. Stderr=subprocess.STDOUT redirects all stderr output directly to stdout of.

In programmer jargon, especially Unix jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket[6] or black hole.

History[edit]

According to the Berkeley UNIX man page, Version 4 Unix, which AT&T released in 1973, included a null device.[7][8]

Usage[edit]

The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process, or as a convenient empty file for input streams. This is usually done by redirection.

The /dev/null device is a special file, not a directory, so one cannot move a whole file or directory into it with the Unix mv command.

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References in computer culture[edit]

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This entity is a common inspiration for technical jargon expressions and metaphors by Unix programmers, e.g. 'please send complaints to /dev/null', 'my mail got archived in /dev/null', and 'redirect to /dev/null'—being jocular ways of saying, respectively: 'don't bother sending complaints', 'my mail was deleted', and 'go away'. The iPhone Dev Team commonly uses the phrase 'send donations to /dev/null', meaning they do not accept donations.[9] The fictitious person name 'Dave (or Devin) Null' is sometimes similarly used (e.g., 'send complaints to Dave Null').[10] In 1996, Dev Null was an animated virtual reality character created by Leo Laporte for MSNBC's computer and technology TV series The Site. Dev/null is also the name of a vampire hacker in the computer game Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption. A 2002 advertisement for the Titanium PowerBook G4 reads The Titanium Powerbook G4 Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null.[11]

The null device is also a favorite subject of technical jokes,[12] such as warning users that the system's /dev/null is already 98% full. The April Fool's, 1995 issue of the German magazine c't reported on an enhanced /dev/nullchip that would efficiently dispose of the incoming data by converting it to a flicker on an internal glowing LED.

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See also[edit]

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References[edit]

  1. ^'Redirecting Error Messages from Command Prompt: STDERR/STDOUT'. support.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  2. ^'A Beginner's Guide to Amiga E - Linked Lists'. cshandley.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  3. ^'OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual'. h30266.www3.hpe.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  4. ^SteveL-MSFT. 'about_Automatic_Variables - PowerShell'. docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  5. ^'Single Unix Specification Section 10.1: Directory Structure and Files'. The Open Group. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  6. ^'bit bucket'. Jargon File. Retrieved 2013-12-27.
  7. ^'null(4)'. The NetBSD Project.
  8. ^'sh(1) manual from version 4 Unix'.
  9. ^'Dev-Team Blog - Donations to /dev/null'. 2015-09-07. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
  10. ^Goodman, Danny (2004). Spam wars : our last best chance to defeat spammers, scammers, and hackers. New York: SelectBooks. p. 170. ISBN9781590790632. OCLC1036874851.
  11. ^'Image: unixad.jpg, (1094 × 720 px)'. Archived from the original on 2013-03-26. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  12. ^'The FreeBSD Funnies'. Freebsd.org. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
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