I successfully made a file with the output from an different command (devlist) so my issue has been solved.

devlist >Ram:devlist.txt

Chelp is a CLI program to provide command descriptions in the shell. It appears that it pulls the command descriptions from a network connection. I suspect this must be my problem getting the output to a file. The chelp output is likely directed TO the shell and the redirect simply doesn't capture any of the data as I assumed it would.

I didn't really have much need to redirect data to a file until I saw the size of the "chelp all" output. Of course, I picked a command that has a caveat to sending it's output to a file.... I am happy enough just learning about this and will hopefully stumble on an explanation in my future learning.

Thanks for your help!

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