writing output to file

Hockeyfan · 10-24-2005, 05:49 PM

What is the command to write the output of the comand to a file?

I think it goes something like this:

ls -l 2&>1 outputfile

Am I right? I tried that and I got an file wriiten but it didn't work.

Hockeyfan

dracolich · 10-24-2005, 05:59 PM

Try it without the numbers, like this:

ls -l > filename

Hockeyfan · 10-24-2005, 06:03 PM

Thanks I should have realized that. I think I use the numbers when there are errors in the output.

cs-cam · 10-24-2005, 08:02 PM

There are two streams, stdout and stderr. stdout is standard output and stderr is where error messages go.

Code:

ls -l > file.txt  # will dump only stdout to file.txt
ls -l 2> file.txt  # will dump only stderr to file.txt
ls -l &> file.txt  # will dump both streams to file.txt