diff --git a/scripts/benchmarks.sh b/scripts/benchmarks.sh
index fe1abc720..62016c4f6 100755
--- a/scripts/benchmarks.sh
+++ b/scripts/benchmarks.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 arg_pat="$1"
 
 # the version of this script
-bm_version=5.5.0
+bm_version=5.6.0
 
 # CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES ---------------------------------------
 # change as needed to reflect your environment/workloads
@@ -299,8 +299,6 @@ function cleanup_files {
   rm -r -f split_tempdir_idx_j1
   rm -r -f split_tempdir_chunks_idx
   rm -r -f split_tempdir_chunks_idx_j1
-  rm -r -f template_tempdir
-  rm -r -f template_tempdir_lookup
   rm -f template_temp.txt
   rm -f benchmark_work.*
   rm -r -f benchmark_work
@@ -656,9 +654,8 @@ run --index stats_everything_index_j1 "$qsv_bin" stats "$data" --force --everyth
 run --index stats_everything_index_j1_with_cache "$qsv_bin" stats "$data" --everything -j 1
 run --index stats_everything_sorted_index "$qsv_bin" stats data_sorted.csv --force --everything
 run table "$qsv_bin" table "$data"
-run template "$qsv_bin" template --template-file template.tpl "$data" --output template_temp.txt
-run template_outdir "$qsv_bin" template --template-file template.tpl "$data" template_tempdir
-run template_lookup_outdir "$qsv_bin" template --template-file template-with-cb-lookup.tpl "$data" template_tempdir_lookup
+run template "$qsv_bin" template --template-file template.tpl "$data" > /dev/null
+run template_lookup_outdir "$qsv_bin" template --template-file template-with-cb-lookup.tpl "$data" > /dev/null
 run to_xlsx "$qsv_bin" to xlsx benchmark_work.xlsx "$data"
 run to_sqlite "$qsv_bin" to sqlite benchmark_work.db "$data"
 run to_datapackage "$qsv_bin" to datapackage benchmark_work.json "$data"