dev null

[Thilo Six]

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lordSauron schrieb am 13.03.2006 20:49:
> Just a little question from someone who's still really new to Unix in general...
> 
> What is /dev/null?  I've heard it mentioned before, but I don't know
> what it's function is.  Is it a mechanism that deletes things?  That
> is my first guess, but I could be off the mark.

Yes you are right. Anything that is copied or moved to /dev/null disapears.
This works with files or with output on comand line.

try this:
ls /etc/

and then this:
ls /etc/ > /dev/null

bye Thilo
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine
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