title: Suppressing output with the Exec task in msbuild
body: <p>I'm running a command using the msbuild "Exec" task. However I do not want the stdio output generated from the command to appear in the console, is there anyway to suppress it?</p>
  
  <p>Maybe something along the lines of using the Exec task to call "cmd.exe" with my command exe is a target , and then using ">" to redirect the output somewhere else. (However I'm unable to get this solution to work).</p>
  
  <p>i.e.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Exec Command="cmd.exe sqlplus.exe  $(someCommandSpecificSettings) &amp;lt; test.txt"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any suggestions to get my example to work or alternatives?</p>