[PowerShell Tip] – Prevent cmdlet from printing anything to output

Hi,

In this short post, we’ll see how we can prevent a PowerShell cmdlet from printing anything to the std output stream. There are two ways you can do this.

1. Piping the output of the cmdlet to Out-Null

   e.g. Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionId "SubId" | Out-Null

2. Assigning the output of the cmdlet to $null

   e.g. $null = Set-AzureRmContext -SubscriptionId "SubId"

Either of these would prevent the output being printed to the output stream.

P.S. I learned this today and would love to know if there are more ways to achieve the same 🙂

Hope this helps!