PowerShell: Assigning a variable, while surpressing console output of dotnet user-secrets-CodePudding

I am trying to run the following command inside a PowerShell script:

$settingsFile = dotnet user-secrets list -p "..\$project"

where $project is a string variable describing a .csproj-file.

When running the above command fails (as not every project will have user secrets) the following gets written to the output window: Could not find the global property 'UserSecretsId' in MSBuild project '<PATH_TO_CSPROJ>.csproj'. Ensure this property is set in the project or use the '--id' command line option.

I want to suppress this output, while still being able to set the $settingsFile variable. How do I do this? I have tried the following modifications, which all did not work for me:

Try-catch

try { $settingsFile = dotnet user-secrets list -p "..\$project"} catch{ }

This was taken from this SO answer. However, this did not do anything.

Redirect error stream with Out-Null

$settingsFile = dotnet user-secrets list -p "..\$project" | Out-Null

This was taken from this SO answer. However, this also did not change anything to the output.

Redirect error stream with Out-Null and 2>&1

$settingsFile = dotnet user-secrets list -p "..\$project" 2>&1 | Out-Null

This did prevent the command from writing to console, but also caused the variable $settingsFile not to be set.

So, does anyone have any other ideas as how I might be able to achieve this goal? Let me know if there are any further questions regarding this issue.

CodePudding user response：

Redirect the error stream to $null:

$settingsFile = dotnet user-secrets list -p "..\$project" 2>$null