Bash script – store stderr in a variable [duplicate]

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Try redirecting stderr to stdout and using $() to capture that. In other words:

VAR=$((your-command-including-redirect) 2>&1)

Since your command redirects stdout somewhere, it shouldn’t interfere with stderr. There might be a cleaner way to write it, but that should work.

Edit:

This really does work. I’ve tested it:

#!/bin/bash                                                                                                                                                                         
BLAH=$((
(
echo out >&1
echo err >&2
) 1>log
) 2>&1)

echo "BLAH=$BLAH"

will print BLAH=err and the file log contains out.

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