I was in Termux, a terminal emulator for Android, running some basic study commands, when I typed something simple:
ls > files.txt
Nothing happened. The terminal went silent.
My first instinct was to think the command had failed. But when I ran cat files.txt, the content was there, ls had worked, but the output wasn't on the screen. It went into the file.
That moment made me want to understand what was happening underneath. This article is the r…
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I was in Termux, a terminal emulator for Android, running some basic study commands, when I typed something simple:
ls > files.txt
Nothing happened. The terminal went silent.
My first instinct was to think the command had failed. But when I ran cat files.txt, the content was there, ls had worked, but the output wasn't on the screen. It went into the file.
That moment made me want to understand what was happening underneath. This article is the r…