How to take the output of a shell script and place it in a file on the command line

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How can I take the output of a shell script and place it in a file on the command line?

# write to file
sh myscript > out.txt
# append to file
sh myscript >> out.txt
# write both output and stderr to file
sh myscript 2&1>> out.txt

You could use sed or awk to do this. For example in your main script you could do:

# execute the command and pipe to sed
second-script | sed 's/\(.*\)/  \1/'

The above sed command simply prepends two spaces to each line of output from second-script.