null device

The null device is also a favorite subject of technical jokes, such as warning users that the system's is already 98% full.

Null Device is an electronic pop band from Wisconsin, USA.

In Unix-like operating systems, or the null device is a special file that discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded.

The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process, or as a convenient empty file for input streams.

AmigaDOS can redirect the output of a command to files, pipes, a printer, the null device, and other Amiga devices.

Devnull is the name of a computer worm for the Linux operating system that has been named after /dev/null, Unix's null device.

Null Device (albums: Sublimation, A Million Different Moments & Excursions, Suspending Belief)

Null Device is an electronic band formed in 1995 by Eric Oehler, William Annis, and Tom Lawrence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.