diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 6f7e7c4311689bbac13816d426e46a1f0ad28b89..d13cc0def53b8a419ad0e90c75317450647efca2 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ downsampleData:
     - merge_requests
     - schedules
   script:
-  - singularity run 'docker://gudmaprbk/seqtk1.3:1.0.0' seqtk 2>&1 > /dev/null | grep -o Version.* > version_seqtk.txt
+  - singularity run 'docker://gudmaprbk/seqtk1.3:1.0.0' seqtk 2> temp.txt
+  - cat temp.txt | grep -o Version.* > version_seqtk.txt
   - singularity run 'docker://gudmaprbk/seqtk1.3:1.0.0' seqtk sample -s100 ./test_data/fastq/small/Q-Y5F6_1M.se_trimmed.fq.gz 1000 1> sampled.1.fq
   - pytest -m downsampleData
   artifacts: