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1. If I want to ignore stdout of a command, I do this on.nix: myprog /dev/null How do I achieve the same on Windows (in cmd or a batch file)? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 175 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
2. When a user fetches the content of the file (not just the file attributes), the software fetches it from the archive and restores the local file. The easiest way to restore all the stubbed/offline files is to copy them somewhere-but copying to another files system takes forever (and then you have to delete all the crap), whereas copying them to NUL is faster. – ewall Oct 10 '11 at 20:29.

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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:

Jon SkeetJon Skeet

Copy Files To Dev Null Team Free

According to this message on the GCC mailing list, you can use the file 'nul' instead of /dev/null:

(Credits to Danny for this code; copy-pasted from his message.)

You can also use this special 'nul' file through redirection.

Peter Mortensenstragerstrager

NUL in Windows seems to be actually a virtual path in any folder. Just like ., . in any filesystem.

Use any folder followed with NUL will work.

Example,

have the same effect as /dev/null on Linux.

This was tested on Windows 7, 64 bit.

Peter Mortensen

Jon Skeet is correct. Here is the Nul Device Driver page in the Windows Embedded documentation (I have no idea why it's not somewhere else..).

Here is another:

Peter MortensenForedeckerForedecker

NUL works programmatically as well. E.g. the following:

works as expected without creating a file. (MSVC++ 12.0)

If you need to perform in Microsoft Windows the equivalent of a symlink to /dev/null in Linux you would open and administrator's cmd and type:

For files:

Or, for directories:

This will keep the file/direcotry always at 0 byte, and still return success to every write attempt.

You have to use start and $NUL for this in Windows PowerShell:

Type in this command assuming mySum is the name of your application and 510 are command line arguments you are sending.

The start command will start a detached process, a similar effect to &. The /B option prevents start from opening a new terminal window if the program you are running is a console application. and NUL is Windows' equivalent of /dev/null. The 2>&1 at the end will redirect stderr to stdout, which will all go to NUL.

Peter Mortensen

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In this article, we will explain how to find out who is using a particular file in Linux. This will help you know the system user or process that is using an open file.

We can use the lsof command to know if someone is using a file, and if they are, who. It reads kernel memory in its search for open files and helps you list all open files. In this case, an open file may be a regular file, a directory, a block special file, a character special file, a stream, a network file and many others – because in Linux everything is a file.

Lsof is used on a file system to identify who is using any files on that file system. You can run lsof command on Linux filesystem and the output identifies the owner and process information for processes using the file as shown in the following output.

To list user specific opened files, run the following command replace tecmint with the actual user name.

Another important use of lsof is to find out the process listening on a specific port. For example identify the process listening on port 80 using the following command.

Note: Since lsof reads kernel memory in its search for open files, rapid changes in kernel memory may result into unpredictable outputs. This is one of the major downsides of using lsof command.

For more information, look at the lsof man page:

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