On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 16:00 -0400, Tim Thompson wrote:
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> proc:execute("echo", ("hello!", "> hello.txt"))

You could run, bash -c 'echo hello > hello.txt'
instead, maybe?


This is assuming you are using Linux or the Linux subsystem on Windows,
or cygwin, or OS X... so bash is available.

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