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> One trick in DOS (& Unix?) type systems is to redirect output to the system
> bit bucket. This is done by putting
>
>  > nul
>
> at the end of a command.

In Unix it would be:
   > /dev/null

for example:
   ls > /dev/null


Though, I guess I could question why you're listing the contents of a
directory and then sending the output to the bit bucket?  AFIAK,
there's no value to doing a "dir" if you don't want the output? :)

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