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My knowledge about useful/funny /dev files grows by the day...
I now know of: random & urandom, null, zero and now full...
Bouta make an infinity gauntlet meme of them
Wait until you learn about the shell specific /dev "files" like /dev/udp and /dev/tcp (which can send/recv IP traffic as if from a file)!
Thank you very much for this info. I don't know if I'll ever have a need for it but it certainly sounds very useful.
DO IT, DO IT