Logging your terminal output using script
by Alpha01
I remember when I first discovered the tab key autocomplete in Bash and being absolutely jollied because of it. Having just found the existence of the script utility, it feels almost identical.
script gives you the capability of logging every thing within your current shell session. In the past, I would always resort to manually copying the text output of my terminal window to a file. In some cases, I would have a really long command line session that I wanted its output saved, which resulted in the entire terminal window crashing when being manually copied due to the extremely large output buffer! Thankfully with script those problems are a thing of the past.
Example
Its usage is dead simple:
tony@alpha05:~$ script logmyshit.log
Script started, file is logmyshit.log
tony@alpha05:~$ echo "script is fucking awesome!"
script is fucking awesome!
tony@alpha05:~$ exit
Contents of logmyshit.log:
Script started on Wed 04 Feb 2015 10:15:32 PM PST
tony@alpha05:~$ echo "script is fucking awesome!"
script is fucking awesome!
tony@alpha05:~$ exit
Script done on Wed 04 Feb 2015 10:16:00 PM PST
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