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To send the output generated by a UNIX command to a file rather than to the terminal, enter the command as follows:
command options argument > outputfile
Replace command, options, and argument with the full command as you would normally enter it. Replace outputfile with the file to which the command is to send its output.
For example, consider the grep command, which is used to search a file
for a string and write all the lines that contain that string to the
standard output device. In the following example, the grep command
searches the file `myprog.c' for the string `counter' and prints all
the lines that contain counter at the terminal:
grep counter myprog.c
The grep command could also be used to place all the lines that
contain `counter' in a file called `counter-matches' instead.
The following example shows how grep would do that if you redirected its
output to `counter-matches':
grep counter myprog.c > counter-matches
You could then manipulate counter-matches as you would any other file.
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