How can I make robocopy silent in the command line except for progress

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I m using robocopy to do backups with a PowerShell script  and it s pretty awesome  except that I d like it to only show the progress percentage while it copies and not all of the other information   The other information clutters the command window  which I d clean and simple so that it s easy to see the overall progress of the backup   Is this possible   Thanks  Andrew

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A workaround  if you want it to be absolutely silent  is to redirect the output to a file  and optionally delete it later    Robocopy src dest  gt  output log del output log

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I added the following 2 parameters   np  nfl  So together with the 5 parameters from AndyGeek s answer  which are  njh  njs  ndl  nc  ns you get the following and it s silent   ROBOCOPY  source   target    NFL  NDL  NJH  NJS  nc  ns  np   NFL   No File List - don t log file names   NDL   No Directory List - don t log directory names   NJH   No Job Header   NJS   No Job Summary   NP    No Progress - don t display percentage copied   NS    No Size - don t log file sizes   NC    No Class - don t log file classes

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If you want no output at all this is the most simple way   robocopy src dest  gt  nul  If you still need some information and only want to strip parts of the output  use the parameters from R Koene s answer

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There s no need to redirect to a file and delete it later  Try   Robocopy src dest  gt  null

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I did it by using the following options    njh  njs  ndl  nc  ns   Note that the file name still displays  but that s fine for me   For more information on robocopy  go to http   technet microsoft com en-us library cc733145 28WS 10 29 aspx

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The   null does not work in the quotes  It sees the   null as the batch filename   The robocopy no output worked     Here is the new batch file   robocopy  mir  B  r 1  nfl  ndl  njh  njs  nc  ns  np c  EnvBackup c  offsite backup EnvBackup  robocopy  mir  B  r 1  nfl  ndl  njh  njs  nc  ns  np c  shares c  offsite backup shares  robocopy  mir  B  r 1  nfl  ndl  njh  njs  nc  ns  np c  Quickbooks Backup c  offsite backup Quickbooks Backup

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In PowerShell  I like to use   robocopy src dest   Out-Null   It avoids having to remember all the command line switches

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robocopy also tends to print empty lines even if it does not do anything  I m filtering empty lines away using command like this   robocopy  NDL  NJH  NJS  NP  NS  NC  fromDir   toDir   filenames    findstr  r  v

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