How to redirect std out and std err to same file

0ktalmagik · #1 (**permalink**) 07-04-2006

Hi

I want both standard output and standard error of my command cmd to go to the same file log.txt. please let me know the best commandline to do this.

Thanks

sssow · #2 (**permalink**) 07-04-2006

cmd >log.txt 2>&1

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Originally Posted by 0ktalmagik

Hi

I want both standard output and standard error of my command cmd to go to the same file log.txt. please let me know the best commandline to do this.

Thanks

0ktalmagik · #3 (**permalink**) 07-04-2006

Thanks. That works great!

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