STDERR redirect into STDOUT redirect into file
Posted by Chief on Oct 22, 2009 in Scripts, Tricks and Hacks
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When you want to redirect stderr to a file, you have choices. Either redirect only stderr to a file, or redirect both stderr and stdout to the same file.
The right way:
Redirect stderr and stdout to [[file]]:
[[command]] > [[file]] 2>&1
Redirect stderr to [[efile]] and stdout to [[file]]:
[[command]] 2> [[efile]] > [[file]]
The wrong way:
Doesn’t do anything useful:
[[command]] 2>&1 > [[file]]