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<, >, >> and of course |
Post 38907 by der Kopf on Wednesday 30th of July 2003 05:56:09 AM
07-30-2003
<, >, >> and of course |
A REAL dummy question:
could someone explain to me the specifics of the <, >, >> and | symbols as they are used in Unix shells? I'm taking a bit of a crash course in this matter, and I feel this is very much a basic.
I know that | is the pipe, meaning that it will tunnel the output of the command before it to the command after it, as e.g.
man du |_more
and all kinds of intricate variations. What do the other ... things do, and how do I call them?
(oh, I work on OSX for the moment. Yep, that figures
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could someone explain to me the specifics of the <, >, >> and | symbols as they are used in Unix shells? I'm taking a bit of a crash course in this matter, and I feel this is very much a basic.
I know that | is the pipe, meaning that it will tunnel the output of the command before it to the command after it, as e.g.
man du |_more
and all kinds of intricate variations. What do the other ... things do, and how do I call them?
(oh, I work on OSX for the moment. Yep, that figures
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