<oerjan> le/rn bimonthly//The word "bimonthly" has at least two meanings, although this wisdom only gives about half of one. No matter which expert you follow, you\'re 50% likely to misinterpret it, or doubly so, depending on the phase of the moon.

A greater than sign instructs the shell to send the output of the command to a file.  Not very mnemonic, but a grater is the closest thing to a file that ASCII has.