Song wrote:
Well, we can use many kind of character for a prompt. Maybe the % is old
school but at least people would understand. In the programming language,
they use ">".
I have to admit that since everybody here used mdk9.1, I should use the one
we all know - I'm sorry for this mistake.
I have
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Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] How may I redirect the ls -l command
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:05:19PM +, John Richard Smith wrote:
> > Song wrote:
> >
> > >I think you do:
> > >% ls- l > list.txt
> &
Why don't you like the prompt invite "%"? I thought it was used often
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 02:05:19PM +, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Song wrote:
>
> >I think you do:
> >% ls- l > list.txt
> >
> It didn't like the %
The % is the shell prompt. For me it's $, for root it's #.
Todd
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On Friday 17 Oct 2003 11:28 pm, Song wrote:
> I think you do:
> % ls- l > list.txt
> or
> % ls -l | grep list.txt
The second one just displays all filenames that contain the string "list.txt".
That is not what you want. The first is correct.
There is no obvious way to use | for this.
--
Richar
I think you do:
% ls- l > list.txt
or
% ls -l | grep list.txt
Good luck.
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Tony S. Sykes wrote:
ls -l > output.file
Tony.
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Subject: [newbie] How may I redirect the ls -l command
How may I redirect the ls -l command to pump the output t
