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The Write to a File action allows you to write a variety of things to a file on disk.
You can write or append the current system clipboard, a named clipboard, a variable, some text or some styled text (you cannot append styled text though).
You select the file to write to by specifying it's path. You can click the File Chooser button on the right to select an existing file on disk. You can option-click on the File Chooser button to show the currently selected file in the Finder (assuming it exists already).
You can write the file in a variety of formats, including plain text, RTF or RTFD, SimpleText, as an HTML folder or web archive, os a Word Doc, Word XML, Open Office XML, or Open Document, or for clipboards which contain images, as an image in a number of formats. Plain text formats can also specify their character encoding.
You can only append to plain text formats.
If you change the format or extension of the file, the other changes to match. If you hold the option key down and change the format, the extension will be left unchanged (7.0+).
