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Standard I/O File Descriptors

I am new to Shell SCripting I code this $ ls -l 1> stdout.txt and I get the output as desired, 1> stdout.txt redirects the output from standard output to the file stdout.txt. I don't ...
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Redirecting stdin with stdout to file

So I have a program that takes in user input and outputs text based on the input. EDIT2: I want to create a script that runs a C executable and the script feeds the C program input from a file and ...
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Unsure about the behaviour of my script when writing to log file

I have a very simple ksh script and at certain points I want to write to a log file. I use the following commands in two places... print "Directory listing 1:\n" > ${LogFile} ll >> ...
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How can i redirect the output to a file when the program is build with ncurses library [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Removing control chars (including console codes / colours) from script output If we redirect output to file in this pattern top >> somefile.txt, we get lot of ...
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Redirecting/grep'ing an existing shell's STDOUT

I run a lot of long running processes (simulations) that print progress to STDOUT. I occasionally forget to redirect to STDOUT to a file I can grep, and it's usually too far along to restart. ...
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Reading lines from a file with bash: for vs. while

I'm trying to read a text file and do something with each line, using a bash script. So, I have a list that looks like this: server1 server2 server3 server4 I thought I could loop over this using ...
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Can I make `cut` change a file in place?

The man page doesn't give me much hope, but I'm hoping it's an undocumented (and/or GNU-specific) feature.