you want: /usr/games/fortune > /home/ron/sig.txt
redirects stdout to a file, overwrites file contents
| connects stdout to stdin of the next command in line
and also
appends stdout to an existing file
|| logical OR operator in shell expressions see http://www.cactus.org/~dak/shellscript.html for more On 11/1/06, Ron LeVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings all, This is really about how to use the Pipe. I have the following set up in a cron job for regular updating: /usr/games/fortune || /home/ron/sig.txt The cron runs fine, but sig.txt doesn't have anything in it. What am I doing wrong??? Thanks Ron _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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