From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, and more)

Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, and more)

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Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, and more)

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- [Instructor] Every command has one input, standard in and two outputs, standard out and standard error. A pipe sends standard out from one command to the standard in of another. A redirect works in a similar manner, but the source of destination is the file system. By default, the output of a command goes to the screen. This includes standard out and standard error. Standard out is the successful output from a command. Standard error is used for error messages. Redirection allows us to split these two outputs individually. We can redirect either output or both to a disk. Commands also have a standard in. If we wanted to redirect a file to a command, we can with a redirect toward the command. Once the command has processed the output, we can then redirect that output back to the disc. Let's see what this looks like using commands. To redirect standard out from a command to a file, use a greater than symbol. One greater…

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