Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In some operating systems, the null device is a device file that discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. This device is called /dev/null on Unix or Unix-like systems, NUL: or NUL on DOS and CP/M, \\Device\\Null on Windows NT, NIL: on Amiga operating systems, and the NL: on OpenVMS. In Windows Powershell, the equivalent is $null. It provides no data to any process that reads from it, yielding EOF immediately. In IBM DOS, MFT, MVT, OS/390 and z/OS operating systems, such files would be assigned in JCL to DD DUMMY.In programmer jargon, especially Unix jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket or black hole."@en }
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- Null_device abstract "In some operating systems, the null device is a device file that discards all data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. This device is called /dev/null on Unix or Unix-like systems, NUL: or NUL on DOS and CP/M, \\Device\\Null on Windows NT, NIL: on Amiga operating systems, and the NL: on OpenVMS. In Windows Powershell, the equivalent is $null. It provides no data to any process that reads from it, yielding EOF immediately. In IBM DOS, MFT, MVT, OS/390 and z/OS operating systems, such files would be assigned in JCL to DD DUMMY.In programmer jargon, especially Unix jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket or black hole.".