Re: Redirecting error output


Subject: Re: Redirecting error output
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 18:58:42 AKDT


> I tried a command to redirect output to a file but it is empty. The
> command was like:
>
> command > outputfile
>
> I think no output is going to output file because they are errors...
>
> Any way to redirect the STDERR to a file?

Your method above only captures STDOUT. To get STDERR, do:

   command 2> outputfile

If you want to capture both STDOUT & STDERR in the same file, do:

   command 1> outputfile 2>&1

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