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I am trying to get the top 20 lines of ldconfig -p and piping them to a .txt file. I am doing the below syntax:

head -n 20 ldconfig -p > ex4-2-4a.txt

I am getting an error for invalid option for the -p. I can run ldconfig -p > textfile.txt and get an output, but the minute I put in the head it doesn't work. Any ideas?

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head wants a text file or input to work with, not a command. Use:

ldconfig -p | head -n 20 > ex4-2-4a.txt
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