From 2fa5caa586dcc9703190f8ae715a94955b15a988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hullabaloo-and-Howdy-Do
 <148780603+Hullabaloo-and-Howdy-Do@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:57:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] null-stream.nu as stdlib-candidate (#649)

This is a way to redirect to a null stream with the same syntax
regardless of platform.
---
 stdlib-candidate/null-stream.nu | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 stdlib-candidate/null-stream.nu

diff --git a/stdlib-candidate/null-stream.nu b/stdlib-candidate/null-stream.nu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..224f036c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stdlib-candidate/null-stream.nu
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Examples
+#     redirect to the null stream
+#     > echo foo out> (null-stream)
+def null-stream []: nothing -> string {
+    if $nu.os-info.name  == "windows" {
+        "NUL:"
+    } else {
+        "/dev/null"
+    }
+}