How to put results of cmd to log

Question

How to collect command's output/results to the log file? What command can write all msg's in shell to the file?

Answer 1

To put some output to file you can use

ls /path_to_folder/ > list.txt 

This will put output from ls command to file with name list.txt witch will be created on curent location.

Answer 2

You can use stream redirection to put output into a file.

yourcommand > filename

Will create a new file containing the output of yourcommand.

anewcommand >> filename

Will append the output of anewcommand onto the end of the same file previously used.