Send standard error and standard out to the same file
January 30th, 2007
This article may seem odd to those who have read a few of my others. However, this is by far my highest ranking search term. Thus I thought I would write up an simple and explicit explanation.
The following will send the output of ls -la /somewhere to something.txt. This includes standard output and standard error:
# ls -al /somewhere 2>&1 >something.txt
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