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NAME
     null — the null device


DESCRIPTION
     The null device accepts and reads data as any ordinary (and willing) file - but throws it away.  The length
     of the null device is always zero.


FILES
     /dev/null


SEE ALSO
     zero(4)


HISTORY
     A null device appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.