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Re: redirecting/merging stderr and stdout in cygwin bash
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: redirecting/merging stderr and stdout in cygwin bash |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:06:29 -0500 |
> I'm not sure this is the write news group, but other cygwin bash
> questions seemed to be asked here, including an almost identical one
> from last June that apparently went unanswered.
>
> I'd like to merge stderr with stdout using syntax along the lines of:
>
> something 2>&1 >$logfile
>
> but cygwin's bash doesn't seem to support this.
Read the manual page. There is text in there explaining exactly this
situation.
The short answer is to change the order:
something >$logfile 2>&1
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