Input - Output redirection in Linux Shell Script
By: Vivek G.
Mostly all command gives output on screen or take input from keyboard, but in Linux (and in other OSs also) it's possible to send output to file or to read input from file.
For e.g.
$ ls command gives output
to screen; to send output to file of ls command give command
$ ls > filename
It means put output of ls command to filename.
There are three main redirection symbols >,>>,<
(1) > Redirector Symbol
Syntax:
Linux-command > filename
To output Linux-commands result (output of command or shell script) to file.
Note that if file already exist, it will be overwritten else new file is
created. For e.g. To send output of ls command give
$ ls > myfiles
Now if 'myfiles' file exist in your current directory it will be
overwritten without any type of warning.
(2) >> Redirector Symbol
Syntax:
Linux-command >> filename
To output Linux-commands result (output of command or shell script) to END of
file. Note that if file exist , it will be opened and new information/data will
be written to END of file, without losing previous information/data, And if file
is not exist, then new file is created. For e.g. To send output of date command
to already exist file give command
$ date >> myfiles
(3) < Redirector Symbol
Syntax:
Linux-command < filename
To take input to Linux-command from file instead of key-board. For e.g. To take
input for cat command give
$ cat < myfiles
You can also use above redirectors simultaneously as follows
Create text file sname as follows
$cat > sname
vivek
ashish
zebra
babu
Press CTRL + D to save.
Now issue following command.
$ sort < sname > sorted_names
$ cat sorted_names
ashish
babu
vivek
zebra
In above example sort ($ sort < sname > sorted_names) command takes input from sname file and output of sort command (i.e. sorted names) is redirected to sorted_names file.
Try one more example to clear your idea:
$ tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]" < sname > cap_names
$ cat cap_names
VIVEK
ASHISH
ZEBRA
BABU
tr command is used to translate all lower case characters to upper-case letters. It take input from sname file, and tr's output is redirected to cap_names file.
Future Point : Try
following command and find out most important point:
$ sort > new_sorted_names < sname
$ cat new_sorted_names
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