A form of
redirection used in
shell scripts. The > operator cause output to be redirected from
stdout to the specified location
For Example:
ps > /tmp/processlist.txt
This will run the ps command but instead of displaying the output on the screen will save it to the
file /tmp/processlist.txt. Note that if you redirect to an existing file it will overwrite that file. To append to an existing file try using the
>> operator instead.