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Benjin
Benjin

Reputation: 2409

How to silence a powershell cmdlet?

I'm writing a script that (by necessity) has to call a rather noisy set of other cmdlets. I'd like to the printing from the other cmdlets to not be displayed so I only see the status messages from my own script.

I've tried > $null and | Out-Null, but those only swallow returned values, not text printed via Write-Host. How can I hide/prevent text being printed "down the stack"?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3668

Answers (2)

tommymaynard
tommymaynard

Reputation: 2152

If I've read your post correctly, you'd like to silence the Write-Host cmdlet. If we consider command precedence, we know that functions will be run before cmdlets, if they have the same name. Therefore, I'd recommend you create a Write-Host function that doesn't write anything. Here's an example that highlights this possibility.

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Upvotes: 2

Roman Kuzmin
Roman Kuzmin

Reputation: 42103

Try to define your dummy function Write-Host before calling noisy cmdlets, e.g.

    function Write-Host {}

If they call Write-Host literally then this should help.

Upvotes: 3

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