Suppress console output in PowerShell

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Dominik Antal picture Dominik Antal · Sep 13, 2013 · Viewed 188.7k times · Source

I have a call to GPG in the following way in a PowerShell script: 

$key = & 'gpg' --decrypt "secret.gpg" --quiet --no-verbose > $null

I don't want any output from GPG to be seen on the main console when I'm running the script.

Due to my noobness in PowerShell, I don't know how to do this. I searched Stack Overflow and googled for a way to do it, found a lot of ways to do it, but non of it worked.

The "> $null" for example has no effect. I found the --quiet --no-verbose options for GPG to put less output in the console, still it's not completely quiet, and I'm sure there is a way in PowerShell too.

Answer

vonPryz picture vonPryz · Sep 13, 2013

Try redirecting the output to Out-Null. Like so,

$key = & 'gpg' --decrypt "secret.gpg" --quiet --no-verbose | out-null

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