How to suppress PowerShell Get-Content output

Question

I have a PS script:

script.ps1

[System.Xml.XmlDocument] $Config;

function Get-ScriptDirectory
{
    Split-Path $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
}

function Load-Config
{
    $configPath = Join-Path (Get-ScriptDirectory) config.xml
    $global:Config = [xml](gc $configPath) 
}

Load-Config

config.xml

<Configuration>
</Configuration>

Later in the script I'm working with $Config variable. When I run this script it writes the output to the console, which contains the root element of the xml. Something like:

Configuration
--------------

Is there exists any way how to suppress this output?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you don't want the output of a command to be printed out to the console, you can discard it by piping it or redirecting it to Out-Null. For example both will work:

$Config | Out-Null
$Config > Out-Null

If you're familiar with Unix-like operating systems, Out-Null is conceptually equivalent to /dev/null.