How to hide command output in Bash

Question

I want to make my Bash scripts more elegant for the end user. How do I hide the output when Bash is executing commands?

For example, when Bash executes

Answer 1

You can redirect stdout to /dev/null.

yum install nano > /dev/null

Or you can redirect both stdout and stderr,

yum install nano &> /dev/null.

But if the program has a quiet option, that's even better.