What do you call the > thingy in context of the shell?

I can't for the life of me remember what the name is for ">"
My mentor told it to me 20 years ago and I can't remember it now. I know we like to call it re-direct, but there was a name othere than that he used.
During a recent training session, someone cut and paste from a file that just happened to have the prompt included >./runthisscript.sh
yep, zero'd out the script. I want to discuss this tomorrow in class. Does anyone know what this might have been called back in the day?

Thanks

I just call it the "greater than" sign.

Isn't it called the "redirectional operator"?

It's the output redirector. I wonder what Bourne called it. We old-timers say "bang" for !, "dollar" for $, "pound" or "hash" or "comment symbol" for "#". But in fact, I've only been around UNIX since the late 80's, so I may not be familiar with the ancient nomenclature.

I've always called the > symbol a 'goesinter' but not sure if that's a old-timer saying or just something I picked up along the path of life.

See: Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers

Interesting read. Thanks Perderabo!

Thanks for that link Perderabo, zap is what he used to say. "zap the file". Now I can stop thinking about it.

I like that