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

Not perfect, but how about setting redirect to either "/dev/null" or "/dev/tty", and then doing

{
   echo "verbose"
    ....
} > $redirect