Sometimes the output of Unix command can we learn the important in such case we want to save the result for later reference in this article we will see how to save the output of a command to a file.
Output of the disk usage command can be saved by using the > symbol and a new file name.
$du-h > usagefile.txt $cat usagefile.txt
Running the above code gives us the following result −
12K./bin 4.0K./Videos 20K./.compiz/session 24K./.compiz 8.0K./.config/gedit 12K./.config/compiz-1/compizconfig ………… ……….
Append the Output of the disk usage command by using the >> symbol and a new file name.
$du-h >> usagefile_all_dates.txt $cat usagefile_all_dates.txt
Running the above code gives us the following result −
12K./bin 4.0K./Videos 20K./.compiz/session 24K./.compiz 8.0K./.config/gedit 12K./.config/compiz-1/compizconfig ………… ……….
Append the Output of the disk usage command by using the >> symbol and a new file name.
$du-h | tee bigusagefile.txt