Powershell silent mkdir

Question

Is there a way to use mkdir (aka md) in powershell without verbose output? Currently, the output is as follows:

PS C:\Users\myusername> mkdir foobar


    Directory: C:\Users\myusername


Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
----                -------------     ------ ----
d----        2016-12-07   9:35 AM            foobar
PS C:\Users\myusername>

Unless there's an error to report, I'd like it to be silent, as in

PS C:\Users\myusername> mkdir foobar
PS C:\Users\myusername>

Is there a way to do this? I'm using Powershell version 2.

Solution 1

PetSerAl is correct, added to by SimonS
Out-Null is your best bet but as SimonS stated > $null is quicker

Solution 2

Just to add another solution: mkdir returns an object and if I just execute the code below, I don't have any output. Further more, I can use $dir to make my own output if needed

$dir = mkdir c:\foo\bar

As a side note, I've tested this PowerShell Version

PS> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
5      1      15063  1155

Comments

[Admin]

Thanks! I would have marked PetSerAl's answer as correct, but since I can't this one gets the kudos.

[FizxMike]

nope, doesn't work in PS for win 10.

[FizxMike]

Instead, this seems to fail silently: [system.io.directory]::CreateDirectory("C:\test")

[Lachie White]

@FizxMike sorry just seen this, works for me on a pretty regular basis on windows 10.

[Honza P.]

This one seems to me as cool, clean and practical solution. Thanks.