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Alec Gorge
Asked: 2010-04-16 19:19:18 +0800 CST

Windows: redirect stdout and stderror to nothing

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I have a command I am running produces a ton of output, I want to silence the output without writing to a file. I have used the following to send all output to a file:

command > out.txt 2>&1

... but again I don't want any file output:

command > /dev/null 2>&1

I have used command > /dev/null on my CentOS box before, but I can't find a similar thing for windows.

windows windows-7 windows-command-prompt stdout

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You want command > nul 2>&1.

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  2. You want command > $null 2>&1

    nul only works in command prompt whereas $null works in powershell.

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