/dev/zero

Mike bmike101 at cox.net
Sun Feb 19 11:19:52 MST 2006


That was fun! I read about a file today called /dev/zero that contains an 
endless stream of zeros. This piqued my interest: "What  does this look 
like," I thought. So I typed 'jpico /dev/zero' and guess what happened! 
NOTHING. 

The enter went to the next line but nothing happened. No pretty colors and 
prompt. 

What use is this device?



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