Powershell silent mkdir

Question

Is there a way to use mkdir (aka md) in powershell without verbose output? Currently, the output is as follows:

PS C:\Users\myusername> mkdir foobar


    Directory: C:\Users\myusername


Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
d----        2016-12-07   9:35 AM            foobar
PS C:\Users\myusername>

Unless there's an error to report, I'd like it to be silent, as in

PS C:\Users\myusername> mkdir foobar
PS C:\Users\myusername>

Is there a way to do this? I'm using Powershell version 2.

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '16 at 09:38

21

PetSerAl is correct, added to by SimonS
Out-Null is your best bet but as SimonS stated > $null is quicker

answered Dec 08 '16 at 09:38

Lachie White

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 25 '18 at 16:37

Just to add another solution: mkdir returns an object and if I just execute the code below, I don't have any output. Further more, I can use $dir to make my own output if needed

$dir = mkdir c:\foo\bar

As a side note, I've tested this PowerShell Version

PS> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
5      1      15063  1155

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 30 '20 at 10:09

Make a function

function silentMkdir { $sink = mkdir $args }

Make an alias in the current shell only that uses that function

Set-Alias -Name mkdir -Value silentMkdir -Scope Private

PS: I'm new to Powershell but this seemed to work. Without the -Scope Private mkdir will be changed for scripts called from this shell. With -Scope Private that issue seems to go away.

Powershell silent mkdir

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