How to redirect stderr from Windows command prompt to a text file?

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Published on 2010-04-25T05:40:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 5:43 UTC
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This article explains how redirection can be used to save the output to a file from Windows command line.

But, this only redirects the stdout stream to the file.

How to redirect the stderr stream to a file?

[I am compiling a program using g++ and getting some 1000 errors. I just want to dump those errors to a file]

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