awk '{ print $2 }' text.txt > outputfile.txt
> => This will redirect STDOUT to a file. If file not exists, it will create it. If file exists it will clear out (in effect) the content and will write new data to it
>> => This means same as above but if file exists, this will append new data to it.
Eg:
$ cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{ print $1 }' | tail -10 > output.txt
$ cat output.txt
_warmd
_dovenull
_netstatistics
_avbdeviced
_krb_krbtgt
_krb_kadmin
_krb_changepw
_krb_kerberos
_krb_anonymous
_assetcache
Alternatively you can use the command tee for redirection. The command tee will redirect STDOUT to a specified file as well as the terminal screen
For more about shell redirection goto following link:
http://www.techtrunch.com/scripting/redirections-and-file-descriptors