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Old 04-01-2013
Channeling output to 2 places

Below is my requirement.

When I type 'ls' from the command prompt,
1. I need the output/listing to be shown on screen(which happens by default)
2. Also a file named a.txt should be populated with the output of 'ls' comma nd.

How should I do this?

-Yuvaraj.
# 2  
Old 04-01-2013
Have you ever happened to see a command named tee

this will help you
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Old 04-02-2013
Cool. Got it. Thanks Pikk45.
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