How to redirect Windows cmd stdout and stderr to a single file?

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You want:

dir > a.txt 2>&1

The syntax 2>&1 will redirect 2 (stderr) to 1 (stdout). You can also hide messages by redirecting to NUL. More explanation and examples are on the Microsoft documentation page Redirecting error messages from Command Prompt: STDERR/STDOUT.

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