# How to redirect to "nothing" the standard output of a function I call?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-redirect-to-nothing-the-standard-output-of-a-function-i-call/49106>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-redirect-to-nothing-the-standard-output-of-a-function-i-call/49106 "2020-10-27T09:31:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-redirect-to-nothing-the-standard-output-of-a-function-i-call/49106/4 "2021-09-27T00:26:09Z")

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Putting the last two answers together more concisely…

```julia
redirect_stdout(devnull) do ... end

```

**EDIT** : Should have tested it, it does not work ☹. This does:

```julia
redirect_stdout(open(tempname(), "w")) do; println(1) end

```

although it’s clearly suboptimal. I’d love to get an answer to [this question](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-an-iobuffer-to-an-iostream/11801)…

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