From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Nov 11 19:20:45 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E2F16A617
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:20:45 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net
	(smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.63])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD0743D1D
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:20:45 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from algould@datawok.com)
Received: from [206.255.31.21] (helo=[192.168.63.10])
	by smtpauth03.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128)
	(Exim 4.34)
	id 1CSKUv-0008I5-Bw; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:20:45 -0500
From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, CHris Rich <freebsdnews@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:20:54 -0600
User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2
References: <8292450b04111111083132f845@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8292450b04111111083132f845@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <200411111320.54864.algould@datawok.com>
X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69563f9fea00a6dd62bcaf53f651cd6924bae868a1a028f6b410350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c
X-Originating-IP: 206.255.31.21
Subject: Re: Outputting command to a text file
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:20:45 -0000

On Thursday 11 November 2004 01:08 pm, CHris Rich wrote:
> I want to use the du command to check on the sizes of files in a
> directory, but i want the output to be put into a text file so I can
> look at it later.
>
> I did some search on google, and found nothing that applied.
> Searched other places (lists and things) and couldn't find what i was
> looking for, perhaps i was using the wrong search terms.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks

You can redirect the output of commands into files using '>' and '>>'.

du > du_results.txt

The command above will send the output of du to the file du_results.txt  
The command creates du_results.txt, overwriting it if it already 
exists.

To append results to existing files, use '>>'.

du >> du_results

This, and other cool information can be found in the man page for your 
chosen shell.

Best of luck,

Andrew