piping to /dev/null

[Lumberg]

How many of you guys have heard this term?

Know what it means?

Have ever used it?

Thanks

Yours in sport and computing

Lumberg

 

[Sassy69]

LOL actually "dev/null" was the destination folder we set up as default for directing all emails collected by a webhosting account "catch all" email address to keep the mailbox from filling up & consuming the hosting account's allocated space on the server...

 

[vansmack2000]

yes its like a trash bucket,
but even better you can Zero out large files that still have a process tied to it.

cat /dev/null somefile

will basically wipe it out, but still leave leave the file there

 

[Lestat]

its garbage bro

 

[Lumberg]

yes its like a trash bucket,
but even better you can Zero out large files that still have a process tied to it.

cat /dev/null somefile

will basically wipe it out, but still leave leave the file there

that's interesting as well.


Well I am asking because the term is often called "piping to /dev/null" but you can't actually pipe "|" processes to /dev/null. The correct usage is $ command > /dev/null or "redirecting to /dev/null."

So it's a convenient shorthand, but not technically true that you can "pipe to /dev/null" because /dev/null is not generally executable.

 

[Dial_tone]

/dev/null is where 99% of EF threads need to go.

 

[jnuts]

What DT said

 

[EnderJE]

C'mon. I come here for Raina's pics, CW's conquests, or some baseless debate on something. But not this shit!