I/O Redirection

Redirecting text data

Let’s suppose that we are looking for the files on the disk. We want to save the search results in a file. We use the find utility and the redirection operator 1>. Then, the utility call looks like this:

find / -path */doc/* -name README 1> readme_list.txt

We run cat readme_list.txt to view readme_list.txt.

Run the commands discussed in this lesson in the terminal below.

The command creates the readme_list.txt file in the current directory and writes the find utility’s output there. The file contents look the same because they are printed on the ...