UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all,

Well I've had a bit more experience with Unix-like environments since my last post, now that I have started working on my website in earnest and am doing much of the file manipulation via the command line through SSH.

The thing is, I want to be able to log all console activity, basically everything that appears in the window, both my input and the returned output from the system.

How do I do this on a cygwin port? I couldn't find any commands to do it through Google, or maybe I'm not using the right terminology.

Thanks.

H.

Something like this should get you started.

Cheers,
ZB

Zazzybob writes some cracking articles - he's a good read.

But that solution may be a bit heavyweight in this case. The core of zazzybob's script is based around a command called "script" if you type "script" it will then log everything in your terminal until you ctrl+d out of it. See the man page for more details, but it should be as simple as typing "script" as you start working, and "CTRL+D" when you're finished.

Alternatively, tools like PuTTY have an option to record a transcript of their sessions.

-c

Thanks, I'll check out this script command. I presume it's a 'core' component meaning that it'll be in the default cygwin install, or do I have to install a specific package for it?

Thanks.

H.

Hi, I had a look but there is no script command for cygwin I did find a C program that was supposed to be a port of the script command for cygwin, but it had a number of errors in the source code that I didn't feel confident editing.

Does anyone know of a working port of the command or an alternative?

Thanks.

H.