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Again, you should see your answer only showing up after the cat command. Note that by using a single > you are overwriting the existing contents and that there is no warning that this is happening, beware of this in the future as linux doesn't have an "undo" feature. We will make use of the redirect output (stdout) character (>), and the "pass output along as input" "|" throughout the course. Not all shells are equal - the bash shell lets you redirect stdout with either > or 1>; stderr can be redirected with 2>; you can redirect both stdout and stderr using &>. If these don't work, use google to try to figure it out. The web site stackoverflow is a usually trustworthy and well annotated site for OS and shell help.
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