RunProgram redirection - how to get dd quiet

[Marlin]

I'm trying to build a console application that calls dd very often.

Therefore I do not want to see the output of dd on the screen.
Like:

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1+0 Records in
1+0 Records out

dd does not seem to have a switch that makes it quiet
and I found a recommended solution to redirect the output
like in this example I found at linuxquestions.org:

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=tesfile count=1 bs=1k > /dev/null 2>&1

That however seems inapplicable when using RunProgram.
Trying that I get something like that:

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dd: unrecognized option `>'

dd gets that as a parameter and no redirection takes place.

Thinking about that and how to ask the question, I suddenly realized a solution like that:

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Program = RunProgram("dd", "if=/dev/sda1 bs=" + Str(#BlockSize) + " count=1 skip=" + Str(N - 1) + " of=block_" + RSet(Str(N), 8, "0"), #WrkDir, #PB_Program_Open | #PB_Program_Wait | #PB_Program_Error | #PB_Program_Read)
If Not Program
  PrintN("### dd Fehler bei block: " + Str(N))
  End
Else
  CloseProgram(Program)
EndIf

No more dd output on the screen.

[lexvictory]

That however seems inapplicable when using RunProgram.
Trying that I get something like that:

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dd: unrecognized option `>'

Because > is a shell feature, you need to use system_() for that (same with the * character in filenames)

[Marlin]

Because > is a shell feature, you need to use system_() for that (same with the * character in filenames)

That sounds very promissing.

Can you give me a hint, how it can be used?

[lexvictory]

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system_("whatever command and its parameters etc that you want to be executed by a shell")

[Marlin]

This is nice and easy.

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