If you have a command that outputs a lot of data to the terminal, you might want to send that output to a file for easier (or later) viewing or sharing. Jack Wallen shows you how.

In addition to standard output redirects, Apple supports a couple of alternatives for managing Terminal command output.

For example, the following SAS program uses the PIPE device-type keyword to send the output of the DIRECTORY command to a SAS DATA step. The resulting SAS data set contains the file name, file type, ...

In fact, you can even pipe the output of such a command into a new file that holds the content of both. For example, you have zdnet.txt and zdnet2.text and want to combine them into the file ...

The cat command concatenates multiple files from input into a single output, but it has become the overworked workhorse for piped commands. You often will find people using cat just to output the ...