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| [[/dev/null]] is a Linux null device file. It (in [[Chaz Wiki:Manual of Style|simplification]],) is a kind of hack to throw files to go down a server
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| <sup>[https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/dev-null-in-linux <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>]</sup>.
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| Let’s take a look at understanding what it means, and what we can do with this file.
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| =Properties=
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| This will return an End of File (EOF) character if you try to read it using the cat command.
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| <code>cat /dev/null</code>
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| This is a ''valid'' file:
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| <code>stat /dev/null</code>
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| This gives me an output of...
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| <code>
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| File:/dev/null
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| Size:0 Blocks:0 IO Block:4096 character special file
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| Device:6h/6d Inode:5 Links:1 Device type:1,3
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| Access:(0666/crw-rw-rw-) Uid:( 0/ root) Gid:( 0/ root)
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| Access:2020-02-04 13:00:43.112464814 +0530
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| Modify:2020-02-04 13:00:43.112464814 +0530
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| Change:2020-02-04 13:00:43.112464814 +0530
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| </code>
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