TheOldWiseKing wrote:
Hi,
It sure works, and I tried it myself. the pipe operator | takes the output of the certain command and Input it to the other command.
You don't understand how the whole command line is handled by the shell.
When saying ls > file1.txt, this will create a list of folders inside the file1.txt cat file1.txt will list the contents of file1.txt and take the output to file2.txt
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