Reg query to display silent

[Adrianvdh]

Hello everyone...

I am playing around with reg, and reg query a lot, but I want to check if a key exist with out it showing "ERROR:"

This is what I have so far to that...

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reg query "%RegKey%" /e >nul>nul
if "%errorlevel%"=="1" >nul reg add "%RegKey%" /ve

So if you don't know how that code will work I will explain... The first line is the read the reg key, mmmK. The second one uses "errorlevel" that is if it returns true or false, but if it returns false it will make the key because it does not exist but gives me an error, which I would like to hide

But my ">nul>nul" wont work any suggestions

Thanks for your time

[penpen]

Using >nul twice is not useful, as it does the same as one >nul:
It writes the output of the standard output to the nul device.

Your problem is, that the output of the standard error stream (STDERR) is still written to the console window.
You can avoid this by redirecting STDERR (with handle 2) to the nul device, too:

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reg query "%RegKey%" /e >nul 2>nul

penpen