very basic unix question

[786snow]

Hi,

I am trying to send grep results to the file test.tx but it gives me the following message.


grep -r "Etrade" . > test.txt
ksh: cannot create test.txt: Permission denied

Then when I created the file text.txt manually and tried to send the results to the text.txt like the folllowing, same thing happened again.

grep -r "Etrade" . > test.txt
ksh: cannot create test.txt: Permission denied

 

[Ogzilal]

Hi,
It's only that you can't write in the directory you are on. Try to redirect the output to a directory you can write like /tmp

grep -r "Etrade" . > /tmp/test.txt

What file have you created manually and wher ? text.txt or test.txt