Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All,

I have a small question but the answer might not be small

I am using the following command "script -a filename" to record commands executed by user.
As you know, the above command will print all what appears on the screen (commands and their output) to the filename.

Is there a way, to print to the filename only the commands without the output of these commands???

Appreciate your help.

well u have .sh_history file.

.history file names may differ depending on your shell (e.g. .bash_history)

I understand what you have said but the .sh_history stores all commands entered by all users (i.e. its the shell history and not the user history). What i am looking for here is the user history.

The command i have mentioned eralier ( script -a filename) stores all the commands entered by the user who have looged into the system and the utput file which includes these commands will be saved once the session is terminated ot user logged out. The problem is that the above command will print the commands entered by the user along with their output, what i want to have is a file having only the commands (i.e. without the result of executing those commands)....

Anyone can help with this????

then you could turn on accounting instead, and then use the last or lastcomm commands to display commands entered by user. script -a is probably not the correct tool for your requirement

.*_history files are stored in user's home folder for each user not for all

I agree with u that the .*_history stores the command for each user in their home directory. But what if i have 2 users having the same home directory, then how to distniguish shish user have enetered which commands (i.e. the .*_history will then be the history file for both users and not only for one of them since both having the same shell and the same home directory).

Any idea about this?