Liz's Stata Guide

quietly; capture

Suppresses output from a command. capture also ignores if the command fails and may be abbreviated cap. quietly may be abbrevaited qui.

Example

. capture tab earnmom, gen(em_cat) 

This will create a indicator variable for each category of mother's earnings we have in the data set, but without printing out each level of earnings.

Note

• See the official Stata help for quietly and Stata help for capture.