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		wowczarek 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: /dev/null is an ACID compliant database > Except for Windows... copy c:\file nul It's been there since DOS or more likely CP/M :)

genewitch 3 months 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

epistasis 3 months 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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