Putting mongorestore output into a file

Question

Is there a way to put the mongorestore output it spits out from the command line into a file? This is for Linux/Unix

mongorestore --port $MONGO_PORT --db $database --archive=$BACKUP_NAME.archive >> log_file creates an empty file.

Any help would be appreicated.

Answer 1

using dir > a.txt 2>&1 or something along the lines of that solved my issue.