From Jonathan's Reference Pages
On the Amiga, the equivalent of UNIX's /dev/null. NIL: is a virtual device which leads to the bit bucket. Anything sent here, effectively goes to nowhere.
One use of the device NIL: is to silence the output from a command line program. For example, this:
type foo.txt >> NIL:
would output diddly-squat.
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