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Instead of letting a command's output scroll by on screen, you want to save it to a file.

Which symbol does that?

> (e.g., ls > list.txt)
> redirects output into a file (overwrite); >> appends. Steering output freely between screen, files, and other programs is much of the terminal's power.
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