On Windows, NUL is the null output device similar to /dev/null on Linux. With Oracle Java 8 Update 331, trying to get a new FileOutputStream("NUL:") throws an exception. Previously (Java ...

I am running a huge task [automated translation scripted with perl + database etc.] to run for about 2 weeks non-stop. While thinking how to speed it up I saw that the translator outputs everything...

Android 11 introduced multiple changes to file storage and access. Apparently one of them is that one can no longer target output to '/dev/null' (my scenario is actually exactly explained in this o...

We have a daemon that contains a lot of print messages. Since we are working on an embedded device with a weak CPU and other constraint hardware, we want to minimize any kinds of costs (IO, CPU, et...

I want to suppress the output of my script running under DOS, similar to the following under a *nix environment: $ command 1>/dev/null How can I do this?

I'm trying to find an easy way to turn logging to a text file on and off much like the example seen here in Python. Their solution was to use a valid file name where logging is desired and to use t...

I want to suppress certain fprintf calls by redirecting the destination FILE to /dev/null. But can I be sure, that fopen("/dev/null", "w"); NEVER returns NULL. In other words, is it everytime possi...

I've used /dev/null a lot in bash programming to send unnecessary output into a black hole. For example, this command: $ echo 'foo bar' > /dev/null $ Will not echo anything. I've read that ...

My Python script is calling a shell command via os.system as: os.system('sudo ifdown wlan0 &> /dev/null') If I run this command without Python, the output is suppressed, in Python, ...

Imagine the following scenario: Manager has created a team project and decided to use (latest) git as VCS for the project. Developer team will be working using (latest) VS2015 (Enterprise) IDE....

I use the following script to compare to folders: if diff "/home/folder1/" "/home/folder2/" &> /dev/null ; then echo "Files in the two folders are the same" else echo "Files in the two f...

I want to run a program (google-chrome) in the background, but prevent it from outputting any messages to the terminal. I tried doing this: google-chrome 2>&1 1>/dev/null & Howeve...

How to redirect all commands executed on the bash to /dev/null ? It's obvious that for a command we have to do: command > /dev/null 2>&1 How about all commands that will be executed f...

Why can't I call os.stat on the special Windows file nul? >>> import os >>> os.stat('nul') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> Win...

according to a hint from another thread I want to analyze pointers, if their dereferencing would cause an segmentation faults or not. The idea is to write code like this: bool IsPointerValid( void...