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How to redirect output to a file from within cron?

I have a backup script which I need to run at a particular time of a day so I am using cron for this task and from within cron am also trying to redirect the output of backup script to a logfile. ...
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Suppress output unless non-zero exit code

What's the best way to suppress output (stdout and stderr) unless the program exits with a non-zero code? I'm thinking: quiet_success() { file=/tmp/suppressed if ! ( "$@" > "$file" ...
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Why does sftp hide the log from stdout?

I have a script a.sh, which has an sftp command: echo "Starting to sftp..." sftp xxx@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx << END_SCRIPT ls mput *.csv.gz bye END_SCRIPT echo "Sftp successfully." If I run it ...
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Logging ALL stderr output of crontab to file

For example, I can log stderr of one script in this way: * * * * * run_script.sh > /var/log.txt 2>&1 But I want to log stderr of all scripts in my crontab. I can append > /var/log.txt ...