Capture output of certain Unix commands
A while back, I was trying to capture the output of the Unix command httpd -t to the clipboard. Typically, you do this in OS X by sending the command's output through the pbcopy command. But in this case, it wasn't working. After much investigation, what I learned is that some Unix commands, httpd -t included, don't send their output to the Terminal in the usual way.
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Clarification
Actually, the '&' goes with the '1' to specify that the target is standard output (&1). You could just a easily redirect the standard error to a different file with'2 > /somepath/somefile'.
This does not change your solution however, because the pipeline '|' will only feed the standard output to another program.