redirect stdout and stderr to a single file with prefixes

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Published on 2010-03-12T12:07:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 12:27 UTC
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I am writing a bash script and need to redirect the stdout and stderr output of a command i run to a single file, prefixing each line with stderr or stdout, accordingly.

is there a simple way to do this?

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