Redirecting The Output Of A Command - Commodore Amiga 500 User Manual

Now the system clock counts up from this time and date . Load the clock tool
from Workbench now to check the new time setting. Remember to click in the
CLI window to activate it after you remove the clock by clicking on its quit
gadget.
Redirecting the Output of a Command
To try this command, insert your Workbench disk into drive
O.
Normally, the output of all commands goes to the screen. You can change where
the system puts the output by using the redirect command, >. We've already
used this command , to redirect the date ouput into a file to demonstrate the
PROTECT command .
The > symbol tells AmigaOOS to send the output toward the output file name .
Here's an example:
DATE > datefile
(Make sure you leave one space before and after the > symbol when you type
this command .)
Execute this command , so you can use the datefiJe in the next example.
This command creates (or overwrites, if the file already exists) a file named
"datefile" in your current directory.
Or, just to have something on the disk you formatted and named MyDisk , type
the following:
DATE > MyDisk:datefile
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