Re: redirecting/merging stderr and stdout in cygwin bash

[Marc Auslander]

t.hanson@faz.de (Tim Hanson) writes:

....
> 
> 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.
> 
> any ideas?
...

cygwin and unix bash behave identically for me with this.  But it
won't do what you want, because it redirects 2 into 1 BEFORE it
redirects 1 into logfile.

try:

something > $logfile 2>&1

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