Stata: Hiding command lines

Question

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 Automobile Data)

. di "I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE"
I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE

. su price

    Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
       price |        74    6165.257    2949.496       3291      15906

. 
end of do-file

I want to hide the command lines, and show only the results as follows:

I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE

        Variable |       Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
    -------------+--------------------------------------------------------
           price |        74    6165.257    2949.496       3291      15906

How can I do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

The answer from user1493368 is correct, but writing code like that is tedious and error-prone for more complicated examples. Another answer is just to learn how to write Stata programs! Put this in a do-file editor window and run it

program myprog 
    qui sysuse auto, clear
    di "I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE"
    su price
end 

Then type interactively

myprog 

As in practice one makes lots of little mistakes, a very first line such as

capture program drop myprog 

is a good idea.

This really is prominently and well documented: start with the later chapters in [U].

Answer 2

Try this: The output text file (quiet_noise. txt) will have the one you want.

quietly {
     log using quiet_noise.log, text replace
     sysuse auto
     noisily: di "I am getting some summary statistics for PRICE"
     noisily: su price
     log close
}