Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 WC> Neato though now I need to read up on scripts to take that
 WC> and direct the output into a file.

 CA> AFAIK the same as DOS, "> " will redirect it to a file?

 WC> Tried that, didn't work, also tried >>.

That's supposed to append.

 WC> It creates the file but nothing there.

...And > didn't?

You could try a pipe:  |

 WC> I recall Ron at Abilities giving a very short script using grep 
 WC> that searched the entire drive for a pattern in every file and 
 WC> every directory. I may look for that disk on the off chance I 
 WC> saved that to file, unlikely though that may be. This would be 
 WC> very useful in both learning Linux _and_ figuring out how to fix 
 WC> my SMTP authorization problem.

If you have mc installed the search function in there will look for content,  too.

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