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		JoshTriplett on Jan 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competiti... If you don't mind being bash-specific, you can shorten 2>&1 \| to just \|& .

coherentpony on Jan 27, 2014 | [–]

Good lord. I think you just changed my life.

praptak on Jan 27, 2014 | [–]

Similarly &> works for redirecting both stderr and stdout to a file. >& is the alternate, less preferred syntax.

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