Explain the redirection operator.
The redirection operator is used to redirect the output of a particular command as an input to another command or file.
There are two ways of using this:
‘>’ overwrites the existing content of the file or creates a new file.
‘>>’ appends the new content to the end of the file or creates a new file.
Suppose the content of the file is as follows:
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Now when you use the ‘>’ redirection operator, the contents of the file are overwritten.
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and when you use ‘>>’, the contents are appended:
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