BTW, the standard redirect (which I had tried previously) doesn't seem to work with the command I showed below. Try it, and hopefully you will see it produces an empty file. On Sep 26, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Shabazian, Chip wrote: > > > 3) You can use your standard redirects: > > rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n > /tmp/ > rpms_by_size > > > -