[CLUE-Tech] bash: overwrite and redirect

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 21:30, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> If I try to do both:
> some command &>| result_file
> 
> I get this error:
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
> 
> What's a straightforward way to both redirect and force a clobber?

some command 2>&1 > result_file

Redirects stderr to stdout, then redirects stdout to result_file,
overwriting the existing contents of that file.

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