Software :: Redirect ALL Terminal Output To File And Screen (for Entire Session)?
Jul 6, 2010
Is there one command that will let me record an entire terminal session (with any possible errors) to a text file while also seeing all output on screen too? I know it can be done for individual commands, but I'm looking to do this for an entire session where the individual commands will be normal (i.e., not piped into tee, etc.). It would be even better if the command prompt is captured too. The obvious utility of this makes me think someone surely has come up with a solution long ago (probably in the 60's).(I'm sure it goes without saying, but subsequent output in that session should be appended to the file. The file should contain the full history, with all output and errors, of the session.)
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Dec 14, 2010
hello
I tried to find a good subject but it was the best of mine, anyway I'll explain it here.
some time I do some thing like installing a new application in Linux terminal of my office PC but it take a long time and I have to go home during its installation or configuration process that it is not good to cancel it.My current solution is abandoning the process until next day. I wanted to know is there any way to redirect an input and out put of a terminal to another one, if it works I can continue my abandoned process by ssh to my Linux office PC and redirect that terminal to my new remote sshed terminal from my home.
Thank a lot for any help.
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Mar 9, 2011
I am trying to grep multiple numbers from file, grep does have the -f option for that.
Code: grep -f <`seq 500 520` /etc/passwd I know this could be done with
Code: for i in `seq 500 520`; do grep "$i" /etc/passwd; done But my question is fare more behind this example. It is possible to redirect one command output which will be treat as a content of file for another command ?
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Apr 17, 2010
i have a process launch by another app, i want to see the output (that is in console) in a terminal (gnome-terminal or tty); how can i capture de standart I/O from a process. my process (aria2) is launch by firefox and the output of ps is like:
# ps aux | grep aria2
dorian 30289 2.8 0.1 12148 4048 ? D 07:08 0:03 aria2c --continue -d /home/downloads/so/suse --referer=http://software.opensuse.org/112/en
...is running but i cant see the output (download state), how can i capture or redirect standart I/O to my terminal to get something like the output of:
$ aria2c --continue -d /home/downloads/so/suse --referer=http://software.opensuse.org/112/en --load-cookies=/tmp/flashgot.h2fnxf84.default/cookies --input-file=/tmp/flashgot.h2fnxf84.default/flashgot.fgt
[#1 SIZE:6.7MiB/4,289.3MiB(0%) CN:5 SPD:25.3KiBs ETA:48h01m01s]
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Oct 15, 2010
i got a bash script which can remind me my friends' birthday ,and i want run it as a cron job everyday,but the linux just emails me the output.Now my question is how to how to redirect the cron output to screen.
PS: when i run the script mannually ,it runs very well,so my script is good. And i have tried :
1.30 8 * * * root /home/birth.sh >/dev/console
it shows nothing
2. 30 8 * * * root /home/birth.sh >/dev/tty1
the same as 1
3. 30 8 * * * root /home/birth.sh >/dev/tty
it shows:/bin/sh: cannot create /dev/tty: No such device or address
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Nov 6, 2010
I'm using 10.04, and gnome-terminal GNOME Terminal 2.30.2 . I have irssi running on screen session on remote host. And I've been struggling for quite many days to configure it to produce either visual feedback or ring terminal's bell when I receive a private message or one of those that are highlighted.
My compiz settings window in General tab has 'Audible bell' checked.
My GNOME terminal has 'Terminal bell' checked.
I also added 'set bell-style audible' to my ~/.inputrc
And I also tried to manually load pcspkr module into my kernel.
No of the above helped or at least I haven't been able to notice any difference.
I also used some commands for irssi to produce bell sign.
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Oct 26, 2010
To redirect standard output to multiple files:
Code:
echo Test | tee file1 file2
My problem is that the word "Test" still displays to the screen? I want same effect as:
Code:
echo Test > file1
but with multiple file redirection.
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Aug 6, 2010
I am again struggling to make a script work, but hey, it is fun, I am learning new things. I discovered the set -x option which was, for me, like the second coming. Still, what I am not able to do is redirect ALL output to a (log) file, including what is produced by the -x setting. Let's assume a very simple script:
Code: #!/bin/bash
set -x
source="/home/atelier/Bureau/"
ls -la $source and I am running it as . test.sh >> /var/log/test.rmcb.log
The result of ls goes inded into the log file, but the rest still shows on the console where I am running the script: Code: ++ source=/home/atelier/Bureau/
++ ls --color=auto -la /home/atelier/Bureau/ Is there a way to redirect EVERYTHING to the log file ?
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Sep 8, 2011
I started my Debian 6 machine today and the terminal (Alt+Ctrl+F1) is only using the top left area of the screen. The resolution is correct but the whole screen just isn't filled with text. When I log in and run startx the GUI is in a very small resolution.
I've tried everything I can find with GRUB_GFXMODE and GRUB_GFX_PAYLOAD but nothing works.
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Mar 9, 2011
I want to redirect the output of a command to a file, but not at the end of the file, but after a line. Do you know how can I do it?
Something like:
cat file_a | grep some_text >> resulting_file
# in this file I need to place the output from grep, but not at the bottom of resulting_file, like it would normally happen, but after line .. 3 , for example
Then, if file_a is:
abc x
some_text q
zxc w
[Code]....
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Apr 11, 2011
I'd like to redirect the output to a file and to the console. I know about tee but the issue is that it waits until the first process finishes.e.gecho "hello world" | tee test.txtfirst calls echo and then tee.Is there a way to redirect "on the fly" ?
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Apr 25, 2011
I was trying to redirect the output of two variables to different columns of a .csv file in MS excel like this,
Code:
echo "$a $b" > abc.csv
But I am getting both $a and $b in the same column, is there anything I can use instead of to move the value of $b to the next column? Or is there a good different approach to do it?
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Jun 29, 2010
Ubuntu 10.04
I booted to command line only and entered the following command: Sudo Xorg -configure > xorglog.txt
the command seems to run just fine and does create a new xorg.conf.new file but I would like to see all the output of the Xorg -configure command but it just scrolls by too fast and I can't go back to see it. Hence this is why I'm trying to do the > . It seems to ignore the >.
how I can see what the command is doing?
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Feb 11, 2010
I wrote a short script that sleeps for 30 seconds then outputs "Done" to the screen:
sleep 30
echo Done
now I want to re-direct the output to a file, I tried:
./scriptName& > fileName
Didn't work, "Done" still came out to the screen.
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Aug 25, 2009
I have a python script that when run outputs to screen.
eg.
./international_sms_check.py 0403000511 919227434827
TS 21 check ok
TS 22 check ok
sms successfully delivered from 61403000511 to 919227434827
But when I try:./international_sms_check.py 0403000511 919227434827 > test
The file test is created but there is nothing in it.if I try ls > test this works fine with output of ls redirected to file test.
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Feb 11, 2010
I have got a script with an outer and inner loop. The inner loop issues loads of echo's which need to be redirected to a log file determined by the outer loop. The obvious solution is to redirect every echo to >$LOG and set LOG in the outer loop.
Code:
for f in $FILES ; do
LOG=<logfile>
for l in $LINES ; do
[code]....
it is possible to map stdout to $LOG in the outer loop without having to redirect every subsequent individual command output?
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Sep 6, 2010
I did a select on my db and now I need that this if consult return true for me salve the columns information in file. How I do this in Shell?!
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Aug 26, 2010
I am writing a script in which I am using AWK to append to a line in a file and save the file. The command I am using is:
Code:
awk '{s=$0; if ( NR==4 ){s=s ":/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_19/bin" } print s;}' $appName > $appName.new
[code]...
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Dec 7, 2010
I'm working on some scheduled task script files to keep nightly backups of some of our database information in place, and it's a bit annoying when they blow up. I know how to redirect stdout and stderr to a flat file I can view when I come in, and I know that 2>&1 maps them both to the same file (whatever was named in 1). However, I'm running into some cron-time situations where it's easier to have the two streams together, and other cron-time situations where it's easier to have them separated. I can't really tell which is going to happen; is there some way I could create both kinds of output file for my scripts, so that I've got a std_err only file and an interleaved std_out/std_err file?
Note: I've looked at the 'tee' command, but I don't think it will work for what I'm after. 'tee' appears to only work with stdout; I'm trying to work with stderr.
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Jul 24, 2010
There are often times when the best way to launch an application is from the terminal, but it is a graphical application and after it is launched the terminal is useless.
Examples of places where a terminal is convenient are when a process starts lots of child processes and is also unstable; you can be sure to kill all of its children simply by using Ctrl-C at the terminal. Also it allows me to read program output and to set up the terminal environment to be optimal for the application (for example "unset LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT")
With GNU screen, I can get around the hassle of having a terminal window open by using something like the following in a terminal window:
Code:
screen
my_command
Ctrl-A d
and then I can close the terminal and the program will keep running. Then I just type "screen -r <Tab>" (the tab will get me my screen session if there is only one such session) in any terminal window, even a tty, and I can get the screen session back and use Ctrl-c or something.
So my question is, is there a way to do this automatically so that a launcher or script will start a screen session, inside that screen session start a process, and then detach from that screen session without me having to manually open and close a terminal and type the commands?
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Sep 7, 2010
I am trying to display a text using crontab. My settings :
*/2 * * * * /bin/echo "hello"
This setting sends a mail to the user, instead of displaying on the screen. Now tried changing the setting to:
*/2 * * * * /bin/echo "hello" > /dev/tty1
Now I can see the text on the screen, but this setting comes with a catch. What would happen if the user changes the terminal. for instance if he gets into tty2, he wont have write access on tty1. So the user gets a mail saying "permission denied". Is there any way that I can force the user to use a particular terminal or can a cron job be set in a way such that the user would get the text irrespective of the terminal he logs in.
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Jun 29, 2011
Is there a way (In the terminal or script file) to change the session during login? The login screen I have in Ubuntu 10-10 only allows for name and password, no other options. Is there a way to change the login screen? I downloaded some new login screens but don't know how to change the current gnome.desktop session to something else and I DON'T want to get stuck in another login "Twilight Zone"
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Apr 17, 2010
I would like to capture all output spewed to a terminal session including processes that are terminated that were invoked from a script running in a terminal window. this is beyond capturing just stderr and stdout . for example
{
./script
} 2> stderr.cap 1>stdout.cap
if script is terminated (including because of memory violations) I get spewed output to the terminal I would like to capture that spewing to a file automatically or to a bit bucket /dev/null Is there another filehandle which can be redirected to do this? If so how or is there another way???
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Mar 15, 2011
I sometimes stick my neck out and provide somewhat detailed, and often risky, "Mr-fix-it" remedies for boot problems. Now, I know it's possible to amend each command with "whatever_command > whatever.txt" in which case it'll place the command output in a file in /home.
But if you're directing someone to run a lot of commands as I did here is it possible to save the output of all commands to a .txt file without amending each command?
Or is it already saved somewhere that I'm not yet aware of? I wouldn't be surprised if the latter were true, I just haven't yet found it
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May 5, 2010
I've got a somewhat anemic box, resource-wise, set up in the office where any authorized user plus a guest account can log on. Guest is tightly restricted, but we get a lot of people passing through who need one-time or occasional access - this isn't the big problem. What's causing me problems is that a user will log in, walk away or go to the john and the screen locks. Next user (or this one comes back) and winds up doing another login. At the end of a week or so, I may have a couple of dozen sessions listed when I ask for "users". Since some of these session contain open applications they eat up an awful lot of a marginal amount of available memory. How do I kill the entire session (as root) for a user? Gotta be simple but it's not obvious to me.
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Jul 1, 2010
I am using:
user@unknown:~$ sudo command -option > log
to save the results of "command" to the file "log", but I'd like to also get the result on the terminal, is this possible?
I am using ubuntu 10.04 lts.
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Oct 26, 2010
I know how to redirect the output of a terminal to a file. For example, if I want to list all the files in ~/Documents and output to a file called test.txt, I would do this: ls ~/Documents > test.txt The question is, can I copy the output to test.txt AFTER I have carried out the command? This would mean that I wouldn't have to know in advance whether I want to copy the output to file. I want to do something like this: ls ~/Documents Then this: <bash command for copying standard output to test.txt>
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Feb 11, 2011
I'd like to use screen to execute a file with a certain session name instead of just numbers... or at least have a more permanent name, I'd like to be able to use it all in one command though. So I can put it into a script.Also: is there a way I can remove or change what comes up at the debian login screen so instead of debain 5.0 I can make it say something else? Also when I login the message that comes up is a little annoying, is there a way I could remove or change that too?
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Feb 15, 2011
I'm trying to create an iso file in a terminal with the following command:
$cat /dev/sr0 > nameofdisk.iso
I get the following error
cat: /dev/sr0: Input/output error
I already checked and my optical drive is indeed /dev/sr0. I've hunted google a few hours trying to figure it out. Does anyone know why I'd be getting this error?
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Apr 23, 2011
is it possible to log the command output's history that are previously printed messages in the terminal to a file? that is the first command output when i first opened terminal through the last command.
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