LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Generate SPECIAL alphanumeric WORDLIST

See the last few lines of post #16, above.

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As a general answer, almost every command reads its input from the "standard input device," /dev/stdin, and sends its output to the "standard output device," /dev/stdout. (Any error messages are sent to the "standard error device," /dev/stderr.)

When you're using a terminal, you're "actually" running a program called the "shell" program. Almost always, that is a program called bash, although there are several other shell programs in common use. bash, and most of the other shell programs, use redirection operators (< << <<< > >>) to change the default to some other file. (The < operators change the input, the > ones the output.)

For example the command echo "Hello World!" would display Hello World on your terminal; echo "Hello World!" > example would create (or overwrite) a file called "example" (in your "current directory") containing that line. The cat command will copy a file (or a set of files) to the standard output.

Here's an example:

Code:

$ echo "Hello World"

Hello World

$ echo "Hello World" > example

$ cat example

Hello World

$ cat example example 

Hello World

Hello World

$ rm example

(The rm command, at the end, removes the "example" file.)