Save output to a filestep 1 of 4 · beginner
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The command is shown. Click it to run, or type your own.
By the end of this lesson you can
- Redirect a command's output into a file with
> - Sort lines numerically with
sort -n - Connect commands into a pipeline with the pipe
| - Recognise the
cut | sort | uniq -cidiom for counting values
Before you startThe previous lesson: ls, cat, wc, and the * wildcard.
The > symbol redirects a command's output into a file instead of the screen. Let's capture the line counts.
Write the line counts of every .genes file into lengths.txt.
Watch out
> overwrites the target file without warning. Use >> instead to add to the end of an existing file. When in doubt, redirect to a new name.
Type a command, or click the suggested one. ↑/↓ recall history, Tab completes file names. New to this? Hit Explain this command to see it in plain English.
workspace/shared/data0 files
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