[ELI5] /dev/null, /dev/random, /dev/urandom and /dev/zero

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I’ve been reading about this files and also I have tried to inspect by myself about this files (file, ll, Stat and some other commands) but I just don’t understand them.

Can someone please explain me what are these files and how can I used them?

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Everything in /dev/ is not a real file on a disk, but a sort of pretend file — you can read from them and/or write to them, but their contents or effects live only in software, and are not written down on a disk.

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