Redirect stderr and stdout in Bash

Question

I want to redirect both stdout and stderr of a process to a single file. How do I do that in Bash?

Answer 1

I wanted a solution to have the output from stdout plus stderr written into a log file and stderr still on console. So I needed to duplicate the stderr output via tee.

This is the solution I found:

command 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 1>>logfile | tee -a logfile

• First swap stderr and stdout
• then append the stdout to the log file
• pipe stderr to tee and append it also to the log file