How to silence output in a Bash script?

Question

I have a program that outputs to stdout and would like to silence that output in a Bash script while piping to a file.

For example, running the program will output:<

Answer 1

If you want STDOUT and STDERR both [everything], then the simplest way is:

#!/bin/bash
myprogram >& sample.s

then run it like ./script, and you will get no output to your terminal. :)

the ">&" means STDERR and STDOUT. the & also works the same way with a pipe: ./script |& sed that will send everything to sed