@rakslice I'm aware, this is just pedantry. We all know I'm not saying /dev/null is a regular file as in non-special.

And given repliers here love their kind of correctness, here's mine: /dev/null is *any* file, due to /dev being on a regular filesystem (tmpfs or on-disk) and not a virtual filesystem (like procfs).
And that's a mouthful, yet I'm sure it'll trigger your kind.