How to suppress command output on screen?

I'm having trouble suppressing the output of a command. I've tried the semicolon and echo off command with no success.

echo off all
system('C:\LSDYNA\program\ls-dyna_smp_s_R610_winx64_ifort101.exe i=beam.k ncpu=4');

This gives the output from the program invoked, which is very long and unnecessary. This snippet is part of a bigger code where I need to print to screen at regular intervals.

Any tips? Thanks.

[Adwait]

Another reason I want to suppress the output of the system command is that I need to invoke this command several times, which clutters the command window.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Try

    str = evalc( 'system(''dir'')' );

and

    [ status, cmdout ] = system('dir');

and compare with

    system('dir');