Symbolic links and piping info...
 

So i created a symbolic link...
And i want to "pipe" this output onto a file i made in /home/jb/data called mydata.txt

Im not sure what it is called in linux but in programming (perl and java) its piping/ file io, i guess append ? How would i do this ? Thanks !

ifconfig >> mydata.txt ?

dont want to overwrite the 2 lines i have in there btw

:newbie:

I don't know why you created the link; ifconfig works for me as a non-root user...

Anyway, its not piping into a file, its redirection; in fact 'output to ...' eg
Here's some good links for bash and related stuff.
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-G...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

thanks for the links...ive been reading a little... the link ws required in the practice asgn im doin