What is the equivalent of /dev/null on Windows?
What is the equivalent of /dev/null on Windows?
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I think you want
NUL, at least within a command prompt or batch files.For example:
doesn’t create a file.
(I believe the same is true if you try to create a file programmatically, but I haven’t tried it.)
In PowerShell, you want
$null: