How to redirect console output to a text file

Question

I am executing a Perl program. Whatever is being printed on my console, I want to redirect that to a text file.

Answer 1

The preferred method for this is to handle redirection via the command line, e.g.

perl -w my_program.pl > my_output.txt

If you want to also include stderr output then you can do this (assuming your shell is bash):

perl -w my_program.pl &> my_output.txt