I added the following to my .login (actually a file called .aliai which is sourced from my .login):
alias "DT" "cat >> ~/Desktop/DT.txt"
I can now have any command's output redirected to a file on my desktop called DT.TXT, appending any new text to the end of the file. If I do not want it to append to an old DT.txt that may already exist, I use the
DTo command defined by the following alias:
alias "DTo" "cat > ~/Desktop/DT.txt"
Either can be used as follows:
% ls -la | DT [... or "| DTo"]
The secret is the "piping" through the DT ( or DTo) command, which executes the redirect alias.