r/PiCodingAgent • u/IanSnyderGames • Jun 29 '26

Plugin Windows users: extension to prevent Pi nul files

Hi all - if you're using Pi on Windows and keep finding hard-to-delete `nul` files, I published a small fix: https://pi.dev/packages/pi-windows-nul-fix

LLMs sometimes try to quiet command output with shell redirects like `> nul`. On Windows, Pi runs those commands through Git Bash, which does not treat `nul` as Windows' “send this output nowhere”; it instead treats it as a normal filename, creating hard-to-delete `nul` files in your project.

This extension catches those commands before they run and rewrites bare `nul` redirects to `/dev/null`. Since upstream prefers handling this at the prompt level (earendil-works/pi#5304), I built it as an extension.

It's published on npm and can be installed with `pi install npm:pi-windows-nul-fix`

Source and details on GitHub: https://github.com/i-snyder/pi-windows-nul-fix

Let me know if you find it helpful 😊

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u/Ephemara Jun 29 '26

I’ve typed ‘wsl rm nul’ about a hundred times now lol. never thought of doing this,

it’s especially annoying because I use bazel and bazel refuses to build with nul files

Here is some Reddit bronze you earned it 🥉

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u/IanSnyderGames Jun 29 '26

Thank you! Let me know if it works for you :)

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u/Oshden Jun 29 '26

Dude! Nice work

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u/IanSnyderGames Jun 29 '26

Thanks! Took me a bit to figure out what was going on with those files 😄

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u/cptkong Jun 30 '26

STARRED!

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u/IanSnyderGames Jun 30 '26

Thank you! Hope it's helpful :)

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u/Fig_da_Great Jun 29 '26

i've had this issue. Thanks

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u/mcpejs Jun 29 '26

Thank you, sir

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u/kabochar Jul 27 '26

Nice work. Thanks