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1 identifiers linking /dev/zero across the web's reference databases
5 statements · 60% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
1 identifiers linking /dev/zero across the web's reference databases
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/dev/zero is a special file in Unix-like operating systems that provides as many null characters as are read from it. One of the typical uses is to provide a character stream for initializing data storage.