[ale] bash commands

[Robert L. Harris]

try ">" instead of "|"


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> I keep reminding myself that I don't begin to know what I think I know! :(
>
> I am about to upgrade this box, finally from FC 13 to FC 14.
> Ought to be simple enough.  I have the CD, which I think will do a clean
> install onto a software RAID.
>
> Prior to that I really ought to have on hand a list of all the installed
> packages.
>
> So I created a file <app_list.txt> on the Desktop and then tried this:
>
> yum list installed | ~/Desktop/app_list.txt
> and got back this
>
> bash: /home/kilpatms/Desktop/app_list.txt: Permission denied
>
> WTF!
>
> So I checked the perms on the existing (empty) file and they were correct.
> Then I tried the same thing as root, expanding the ~/ and got the same
> response.
>
> So, How DO I make yum throw a list of the installed packages to a text file
> rather than to the terminal?
>
> Sean
>
>
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