Suppress output from non-PowerShell commands?

Question

I am running a command

hg st

and then checking it\'s $LASTEXITCODE to check for availability of mercurial in the current director

Answer 1

A fun thing you can do is to pipe the output to Write-Verbose, then you can still see it if you need it by running your script with the -Verbose switch.

ping -n 2 $APP 2>&1 | Write-Verbose