Saving Terminal/Shell Output to a File

There may be times where you wish to save your terminal or shell output to a file.

Luckily there are 2 simple ways you can do this:

1. Output to a file using > command
2. Output to a file using the tee command

Using the > operator at the end of your command.

echo 'Hello World' > test.txt

Above we will output the command to the test.txt file. In the example above our command was echo 'Hello World'. We could also list out the current directory:

ls -la > test.txt

And that would save the output to the test.txt file.

Using the tee command

Tee is a command that takes standing input and writes to standard output. You can | your command to the tee command like so:

echo 'Hello World' | tee test.txt

The tee command will still process the output into your command prompt and it will also write it to the test.txt file. We can do the same with our ls command:

ls -la | tee test.txt

And the output will show up in our prompt and in our test.txt