redirect output to a command line

I often want to query vim from a command line - so for example:
vim --servername SWILSON --remote-send ':tabs<CR>'

executes fine and displays the results in vim and i get nothing on the
command line. I either want a simple shell style redirect (and then
spit it out to $tty) or redirect to a buffer and save that (though
having vim save that to /dev/stdout probably isn't going to give me
the result I want).

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