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by wowczarek 238 days ago
> Except for Windows...

copy c:\file nul

It's been there since DOS or more likely CP/M :)
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genewitch 237 days ago 

   set "nul1=1>nul"
   set "nul2=2>nul"
   set "nul6=2^>nul"
   set "nul=>nul 2>&1"
just saw this in a .cmd script
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epistasis 238 days ago
Still need an adapter library though! Fortunately there are about 7 competing implementations on npm and most of them only have 5-6 transitive dependencies.
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