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To discard the output of a command, you don't set the echo to off as in DOS but you send it to Out-Null

same as /dev/null on Linux

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Example with new Item

New-Item -Path . -Name "testfile1.txt" -ItemType "file" | Out-Null

Documentation / Reference

• https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315279.aspx