Issue
I'm trying to save stdout of a command to output file output.txt
I can't understand why when I use &> everything is okay and when I use > some strange symbols like [0m[0;1;32m appear randomly throughout the file.
What could cause that?
My investigations shows that these symbols are terminal coloring. But why they disappear when I use &>?
Solution
It probably checks whether stderr is connected to a terminal and if it is than it uses color control codes. When you redirect with &> both stdout and stderr are not connected to a terminal, so no colour codes are used.
Answered By - Maxim Egorushkin
