Is it possible to put the output of a command into a file? I tried doing a
echo history > history.txt
But it put the text history instead into that file.
Is it possible to put the output of a command into a file? I
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Is it possible to put the output of a command into a file? I tried doing a
echo history > history.txt
But it put the text history instead into that file.
Just do
history > history.txtwithout the echo. That should do it. When you do echo history, you are telling unix to print history to screen rather then execute it, which is whyecho history > history.txtonly contains the word history.