How to silence output in a Bash script?

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If it outputs to stderr as well you’ll want to silence that. You can do that by redirecting file descriptor 2:

# Send stdout to out.log, stderr to err.log
myprogram > out.log 2> err.log

# Send both stdout and stderr to out.log
myprogram &> out.log      # New bash syntax
myprogram > out.log 2>&1  # Older sh syntax

# Log output, hide errors.
myprogram > out.log 2> /dev/null

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