Windows: redirect stdout and stderror to nothing

Question

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.

score 77 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 30 '13 at 16:38

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You want command > nul 2>&1.

edited Sep 30 '13 at 16:38

Alec Gorge

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answered Apr 16 '10 at 03:21

Jed Daniels

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 23 '20 at 23:10

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You want command > $null 2>&1

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

edited Feb 23 '20 at 23:10

ross

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answered Jul 29 '15 at 16:37

ZZ9

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Windows: redirect stdout and stderror to nothing

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