[SOLVED] Command for output to vi or gedit

[newbie56]

What is the command I need to use a command's output to a editor? I thought it would be something like:

ls -l > gedit or ls -l | gedit
rpm -Va > vi

[digerati]

the correct command is,

ls -l > filename
rpm -Va > filename

Your commands will work also but the filenames are gedit and vi.

[newbie56]

You kinda answered my question. What I am really trying to do is call the command such as ls -l and then open up vi or gedit as well as saving the filename. So I thought this might work but it didn't:

ls -l > vi output.txt

[digerati]

simplest way to dao that would be

ls -l > filename && vi filename

[newbie56]

thanks. Closed.