Problem redirecting output of find to a file

Question

I am trying to put the result of a find command to a text file on a unix bash shell

Using:

find ~/* -name "*.txt" -print > list_of_txt_files.list

However the list_of_txt_files.list stays empty and I have to kill the find to have it return the command prompt. I do have many txt files in my home directory

Alternatively How do I save the result of a find command to a text file from the commandline. I thought that this should work

Answer 1

You can redirect output to a file and console together by using tee.

find ~ -name '*.txt' -print | tee result.log

This will redirect output to console and to a file and hence you don't have to guess whether if command is actually executing.