Linuxlookup.com Tip Of The Week: bash Redirection
Aug 18, 2001, 20:35 (2 Talkback[s])
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"Shell redirection - sending the output of a command to
a file or reading the input from a file - is commonly used and
supported by any shell you might use. But bash offers some
redirection tricks above and beyond what you might seen in the C
shell.
The simplest forms of redirection are available in all shells.
They look like this:
% wc totw* > totw_count # wc output goes to file totw_count
% mail randy < mailfile # send randy the contents of mailfile
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