How do I suppress standard error output in PowerShell?

Question

In a PowerShell script automating some SVN tasks I have the following function:

function SvnUrlExists($url)
{
  svn info $url | out-null 2>&1
  return         


        

Answer 1

The voted answer generates an error for me. The solution ended up being the following:

cmd /c "MyProgram MyArguments 2>&1" | Out-Null