Do all UNIX systems have the ability to print to an ASCII file? If so, is this a common thing to do, for reports or other output?

Thank you for your response.

For Sun, HP and Linux, You can use:
#command > ASCII filename
for example:
#more /etc/hosts | grep user > ~/user

Annececile,

Thank you for your comment. Your answer is a little too technical for me! In fact, I am doing market research, and wanted to know what systems produce TXT or ASCII files as output.

I assume it is all systems running UNIX?

Thanks (Merci!) for your help!

All UNIX system make extensive use of plain text files.... errors, logs, configuration files most use open, non-proprietary, standards based text files for most operations.

There are other file structures for databases, etc. that require high performance indexing, etc. UNIX users commonly refer to plain old text files as flat files .

Hope this helps....