Windows how to redirect file parameter to stdout? (Windows equivalent of `/dev/stdout`)

Question

Windows console:

• Tool A can write binary data to a file, but has no option for telling it to use stdout.
• Tool B can read binary data from stdin and process the info in it.

How can I get the output from A piped through B without using an intermediate file?

In other words: what is the Windows equivalent of /dev/stdout?

--jeroen

Answer 1

Windows has no direct equivalent to /dev/stdout.

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Here is my attempt at writing a C# program that creates a named pipe, which can be given to program A as a filename. Requires .NET v4.

^{(C# because the compiler comes with .NET runtime, and what computer doesn't have .NET these days?)}