Re: Redirecting Standard Output

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  • Posted by Lnettnay Jul 22, 2017
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Hi Ken,

'<' and '>' are console redirection symbols. They've been used for redirecting input and output from files for a long time (since before DOS I believe).

Here's the Wikipedia article on Redirection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_(computing)

It allows you to take input from a file that would normally come from a keyboard or direct output to a file that would normally go to the screen.

In this instance it allows you to save the output of the program qindex.ex rather than just see it fly by on your screen.

Hope this helps, Lonny

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