Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

["Ben Hutchings" <ben.hutchings@businesswebsoftware.com>]

Upayavira wrote:
> Otto Wyss wrote:
>
> > Sorry I can't remember how I can redirect the stdout and stderr together
> > into a file. I can
> >
> > grep > logfile
> > grep 2> logfile
> >
> > but how can I redirect both together?
> >  
> cat foo 2>&1 > logfile
> or, to append to the file:
> cat foo 2>&1 >> logfile
>
> Should do it.

Redirections are processed in the order they appear on the command line. 
 So "2>&1 >logfile" redirects stderr to the same as current stdout 
(normally the terminal) and then redirects stdout to logfile.  You need 
to swap the two redirections to send both streams to logfile.

Ben.