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 are still struggling to find an answer, specially if you produced a file for the output, and you prefer a clear alternative: echo "hi" | grep "use this hack to hide the oputut :) "