Microsoft has given an option in all their command-line utilities, Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Terminal to send Command output to a text file. In this post, we will see how that’s done.

Windows/Mac/Linux: The command line (or terminal) is an extremely useful tool, but if you have a command that returns a wall of text, you can save it to a single text file with this simple parameter.

Command-line utilities were built with these streams in mind. PowerShell, on the other hand, understands these streams but has its own as well. When invoking command-line utilities from PowerShell, ...

If you have a command that outputs a lot of data to the terminal, you might want to send that output to a file for easier (or later) viewing or sharing. Jack Wallen shows you how.

If the document "files.txt" already exists, then this command will overwrite it with the output of the "ls" command, but you can use two greater-than symbols ("ls >> ~/Desktop/files.txt") to ...

There's a lot to learn about image files on the command line, ... The output from the file command reports this. $ file camper.png camper.png: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, ...

Use the ls command with -l option to display file metadata in output. For example: Each line in the output contains metadata information related to a file or a sub-directory present in the current ...

Using the find command isn’t the most intuitive means of locating files from the command line, but once you get used to it, you’ll find it incredibly powerful and useful.