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Old 07-04-2006
How to redirect std out and std err to same file

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
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Old 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
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Old 07-04-2006
Thanks. That works great!
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