title: How to hide batch output
body: <p>I am putting the finishing touches to a batch script that transfers the contents of a locally edited web site to the internet.</p>
  
  <p>The script opens in a console window, and outputs quite a lot of stuff the administrator needs to see in case something goes wrong. In that case, though, the output is being sent as E-Mail, so there is no need to display the output and confuse the user who runs the update unnecessarily. I need to display only a few lines (say, "starting synchronisation..." and "syncrhonisation complete").</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody think of a way to stop output in a batch script? Kind of a total "echo off"?</p>
  
  <p>A simple</p>
  
  <pre><code>my_batch_file &gt; nul
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>won't cut it, because as I said, a few things I need to show.</p>