diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index d13cc0def53b8a419ad0e90c75317450647efca2..0a6fe3b56e0f528075ae7786c157751466ecca8d 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ downsampleData:
     - merge_requests
     - schedules
   script:
-  - 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 2>&1 | 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: