Linux Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

Redirecting Input and Output

There are times when you’d like to save the output from a command instead of just having it displayed on the monitor. The shell provides a few different operators that allow you to redirect the output of a command to an alternative location (such as a file). Redirection can be used for input as well as output, redirecting a file to a command for input. This section describes what you need to use redirection in the CLI.

Output Redirection

The most basic type of redirection is sending output from a command to a file; this is called output redirection. Bash uses the greater-than symbol for this:

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