greycat 1181830107 learn There is no such thing as &>>. What you want is: command >>file 2>&1 geirha 1295824960 forget geirha 1295824971 learn #redirect &> lhunath 1426602385 forget lhunath 1426602961 learn ''&>file'' is equivalent to ''>file 2>&1'' and is bash/ksh specific. In bash 4, there is also ''&>>file''. For portability, it is a good idea to just write it out fully.