Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

From	steve <dlist@bluewin.ch>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What command to use to output to a text file?
Date	2021-06-23 15:10 +0200
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Hi,

>How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the
>drive, please? What commands do I need to use and what would be the
>syntax of it/them please?

Not sure I understand perfectly, but for example with

ls -l > my_text_file.txt

you will get the output of 'ls -l' in the file my_text_file.txt

The '>' does the trick.

If you want to append some text to an already existing file, use '>>'.

Hope that helps.

Best

Steve

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