[Tutor] What does '>>' pr '>' do?

[Bob Gailer]

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At 10:32 AM 3/12/2003 -0800, Gerardo Arnaez wrote:
>'pipr' info into a file.
>I think it was either '>' or '>>' but can not find it in documentation

I think this refers to things you can do in the WIndows command line or the 
*ux shell. Example

someprompt>python foo.py > somefile.txt

directs any stdout from the python program to somefile.txt. >> does same 
except appends to somefile.txt

Bob Gailer
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