Q&A trip to Linux's Black Hole - /dev/null

Posted by bob on Sep 8, 2021 8:25 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Nawaz Abbasi 		Mail this story
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As per NASA, “A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out”. Something similar exists in the Linux universe as well - it discards anything written to it and when read, just returns an EOF (end-of-file). It’s a special file which is also referred to as null device - /dev/null

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