Where Can I Input this Command?

Tom Fowle wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm
Mon Jun 15 23:43:13 EDT 2015


Wow, Jude thanks for that never seen reference to script command before
and could be very handy.
tom Fowle

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> The script command captures everything coming from the keyboard and
> everything appearing on the screen while it runs and saves all of
> that to a file (default) typescript.  If you exit script by typing
> the exit command at the command prompt while script is running it
> saves the typescript file for you.  If for whatever reason you want
> to append to that original typescript file later, you run script -a
> to do that. Whenever script is run, it puts a timestamp with date
> and time from your system for when the typescript file got created
> or updated.  Hope this helps.  I find it especially to let
> developers see what commands I typed and what their applications did
> with those commands when reporting bugs since this gives developers
> the reproduction instructions.
> 
> On Sat, 23 May 2015, Hart Larry wrote:
> 
> >Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 10:45:32
> >From: Hart Larry <chime at hubert-humphrey.com>
> >Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> >    <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> >Subject: Re: Where Can I Input this Command?
> >
> >OK, Jude, take2, as I got knocked off again. I had never heard of
> >this "script" command, but while there are other logging tools, my
> >`big questions? Would I have it monitor, what? /stty/0,
> >synth_direct, exactly where? And I don't think that man-page
> >provides any use examples. Meanwhile, thanks, this will be a
> >discussion issue at our Linux meeting this evening.
> >Hart
> >
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