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Redirection

   

Most GMT programs read their input from the terminal (called stdin) or from files, and write their output to the terminal (called stdout). To use files instead one can use UNIX redirection:

GMTprogram input-file >! output-file
GMTprogram < input-file >! output-file
GMTprogram input-file >> output-file       # Append to existing file

The exclamation sign (!) allows us to overwrite existing files.



Paul Wessel
1999-12-03