/dev/null
noun — “where data goes to achieve enlightenment by complete annihilation.”
/dev/null is a special device file in Unix-like operating systems that discards anything written to it and returns nothing when read. /dev/null is the digital equivalent of a black hole with a customer support line that politely says nothing and hangs up. When programs need an output destination but you absolutely, positively do not care about the output, /dev/null is the destination of choice.