Saturday, March 22, 2014

Bash Redirection and Piping Shortcuts

Redirecting both stdout and stderr

In order to redirect both standard output and standard error to a file, you would traditionally do this:

my_command > file 2>&1
A shorter way to write the same thing is by using &> (or >&) as shown below:
my_command &> file

Similarly, to append both standard output and standard error to a file, use &>>:

my_command &>> file
Piping both stdout and stderr

To pipe both standard output and standard error, you would traditionally do this:

my_command 2>&1 | another_command

A shorter way is to use |& as shown below:

my_command |& another_command

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