I need to re-direct the output of strace to a file. I also need to redirect the output for time to a file. The way these two commands work is like this:
strace [options] <command>
so like "strace ls" for instance. The problem is strace ls > out just redirects the output of ls, not strace. So how would I go about doing this? I know strace has an output file command, but I really would like to be able to do this with the simple > operator since there are quite a few cases where I would like to redirect the output of a command, which calls another command, to a file. Any tips would help.

p.s. | less doesnt work after "strace ls" either

Like this:

Awesome, but why doesn't it work with the time command?
time ls &> out doesn't work, is it not to standard out or standard error?

LOL maybe I should just strace ls =)

Because you need to redirect the whole in a subshell, not only the last command

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Thanks man, I tried parenthesis before, but not WITH &. Very helpful

Try this:

Nice, similiar effect as parenthesis, but it sort of shows whats going on, so I can still redirect ls to a file, and then pipe strace to less. Thanks alot guys

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