On 2018-07-01 19:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 07:19:02PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
On 2018-07-01 06:00, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>Well it seems it works like this.
>traceroute domain-to-be-traced.com > trace-results.txt
>or something like that.
>process worked for me just now.
>Thanks as usual,
>Karen
I'm asking 'cause I don't really know.
What's the difference between a pipe "|" and sending the result
somewhere ">" ?
The pipe starts a process (using the command and parameters right of
the pipe symbol) and sends the stdout of the "left" process to the
stdin of the right process as in:
ls -l | less
... this would send the output of "ls -l" to the input of "less",
which pages that input for you, or
ls -l | grep lolcat
...which sends the output of "ls -l" to the input of "grep lolcat",
this last filtering out the lines containing the pattern "lolcat",
while ">" would redirect the standard output to a file, like in
ls -l > /tmp/result
...which will create a file /tmp/result (or replace an existing
file) and fill it with "ls -l"'s output.
HTH
-- toms
yes I use them a bit but just wondered "|" is sending to a process I
guess but the process doesn't exist until asked for, whereas ">" is
sending to what ? some internal kernel thing that dumps the output in a
file ?
forget I said anything.
mick
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