Bash - write output to text file (overwrite)

In this article, we would like to show you how to write command output to text file in Bash.

Quick solution:

command_name > file_name.txt

Where:

• command_name - is name of the command that returns some output,
• file_name - is name of the text file where we want to save the command output (by overwritting the whole file).

Practical example

In this example, we use echo command that displays a line of text that is passed in as an argument. Using > operator we "redirect" its output and write it to the file.txt.

echo "Some text..." > file.txt

Note:

This operation will overwrite the whole content of file.txt. If you want to write at the end of the file, use >> instead of > operator.

See also

1. Bash - append output at the end of text file