How to construct shell redirection on command line

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Published on 2010-06-09T04:13:54Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 4:23 UTC
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Consider the following command in Unix:

echo 0123456789 | cat >/tmp/foo &> /tmp/bar

The echo is sent to /tmp/bar.

However, what I really want is to redirect the stdout and stderr output of the cat command and not take its input.

What is the proper syntax to do this?

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