[Techtalk] Using > to redirect standard error?

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 14:25, John Clarke wrote:
> If you're using a bash (or sh, but not csh) shell:
>     command > file 2>&1 redirects both stdout and stderr to 'file'

A short-hand way of writing this (redirecting both stdout and stderr) is:
$ command &> file

This should also work under cygwin's bash.

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