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How to capture output from certain Unix commands
Authored by: fracai on Thu, May 1 2008 at 7:58AM PDT

If you'd like to output both the standard error and output to one file you can also use "&>" as in

ssh -V &> output

The above would merge both stderr and stdout to the output file.

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Authored by: perturb on Fri, May 2 2008 at 4:48AM PDT

Pedantic note: this is available in recent shells like bash, but not in older Unix sh/ksh shells (including the POSIX standard shell.)