How do I conditionally redirect the output of a command to /dev/null?

Question

I have a script. I would like to give this script a quiet mode and a verbose mode.

This is the equivalent of:

if $verbose
then
  redirect=\"> /dev         


        

Answer 1

Got the idea from another question:

#!/bin/sh

if [ $SILENT ]; then
    exec &>/dev/null
fi

echo "Silence here."