Re: how can I find the terminal output

[Gottfried]

Dear Guixers,

thank you very much for your patience and infos, Simon and Kyle,

now I understand how script works and I can use it.
Thanks also for mentioning tealdeer.That's great, exactly what I need, 
examples of usage.

I still have trouble to understand the man pages. I am not a hacker or 
programmer and am not using the commandline on a daily basis. So I am 
still "hacking" on the basis. I am not used to understanding the 
programmers language yet. I am learning day by day.

Gottfried


Am 09.05.22 um 13:42 schrieb Kyle:
> I have never used the command script, but I thought you might benefit from installing the 
> tldr utility: whose name is short for "too long didn't read" It gives examples 
> instead of all the unwanted details that man pages throw at you first even though they 
> don't make a lick of sense without the right background knowledge and perspective. There 
> are many implementations, but I like tealdeer.
>
>    guix install tealdeer
>
> Then type:
>
>    tldr script
>
> That produces a few examples for me.
>
>
> On May 7, 2022 11:42:28 AM EDT, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, 06 May 2022 at 20:18, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
> >
> > > How do I have to use "script"?
> >
> > Only you can answer. ;-)  The question is: what is your needs?  Do you
> > need to record and track the output for each command?
> >
> > Personally, I only do that for the very rare cases when I am demoing.
> > Otherwise, I only redirect the output of a command to a file using ’>’.
> >
> >
> > > Do I have to enter "script" in the terminal before I start other
> > > commands, so that it will start to log my shell?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > or can I, after a command with output, enter "script" and it will log my
> > > output in a file typescript?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > However, you can redo the same command to append the output to a
> > previous ’typescript’.  For instance, in your terminal:
> >
> >         ls
> >         script
> >         ls
> >         exit
> >         pwd
> >         script -a
> >         cd /tmp/
> >         ls
> >         pwd
> >         exit
> >
> > Then the file ’typescript’ contains the session (input and output)
> > between ’script’ and ’exit’ (included).  Therefore, the first ’pwd’ will
> > be not recorded.
> >
> >
> >
> > > I tried several times, but it didn't work. It didn't record anything,
> > > when I opened the file typescript.
> > >
> > > So can you show me an example how to use it?
> > > What Options are useful?
> >
> > Well, have you read the manpage of ’script’?  Type ’man script’.
> >
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > simon


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