/dev/null
To begin,
/dev/null is a special file called the null device in Unix systems. Colloquially it is also called the bit-bucket or the blackhole because it immediately discards anything written to it and only returns an end-of-file EOF when read.Search for SUID binaries and discard error messages:
find / -perm -u=s -type f 2>/dev/null
Supress any output (both stdout and stderr) from the command:
<command> > /dev/null 2>&1
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Step by step breakdown of /dev/null
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