help quietly, help noisily
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Title
[P] quietly -- Quietly and noisily perform Stata command
Syntax
Perform command but suppress terminal output
quietly [:] command
Perform command and ensure terminal output
noisily [:] command
Specify type of output to display
set output { proc | inform | error }
Description
quietly suppresses all terminal output for the duration of command. It is useful both interactively and in
programs.
noisily turns back on terminal output, if appropriate, for the duration of command. It is useful only in
programs.
set output specifies the output to be displayed. It is useful only in programs and even then is seldom used.
Example of interactive use
You do not care to see the output from a particular regression, but instead want to silently run the
regression so that you may access some of its returned results.
. sysuse auto
. quietly regress mpg weight foreign headroom
No output is presented, but the e() returned results from the regression are now available.