Truncate File (>)

Writes stdin to disk - overwriting contents if file already exists

Description

Redirects output to file.

If a file already exists, the contents will be truncated (overwritten). Otherwise a new file is created.

Usage

<stdin> |> filename

Examples

g * |> files.txt

Synonyms

• >
• |>
• fwrite

See Also

• Create Named Pipe (pipe): Manage Murex named pipes
• Create Temporary File (tmp): Create a temporary file and write to it
• Globbing (g): Glob pattern matching for file system objects (eg *.txt)
• Read / Write To A Named Pipe (<pipe>): Reads from a Murex named pipe
• -> Arrow Pipe: Pipes stdout from the left hand command to stdin of the right hand command
• >> Append File: Writes stdin to disk - appending contents if file already exists
• ? stderr Pipe: Pipes stderr from the left hand command to stdin of the right hand command (DEPRECATED)
• | POSIX Pipe: Pipes stdout from the left hand command to stdin of the right hand command

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