Re: [PLUG] Capturing command line, and stdio and error with bash

[Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig97.list@gmail.com>]

Yes, I thought of doing something similar, but it still does not cover
things like viewing history.  For example pulling up old commands.
You end up with all the commands in the typescript (using script),
though you really only entered one of them (which history records just
fine).  Also things like running vi or whatever, I would just want the
"vi xxx" to record, not everything going on in the vi session.

Imagine that you are doing an install or some meticulous work
manipulating things, and you want to record what you are doing.  What
commands you actually entered, and what the applications or shell
outputted, and that is it.      Of course, I realize there may be
something out there that does this, but I am trying stay in the
mindset of a  modern common Unix or Linux install (writing a script
would be fine), without requesting new software installed.

History does great recording commands.

Script of I/O redirection using tee (though pain to type every time),
does great for recording output.

How to do both in one place?


On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Alan D. Salewski <salewski@att.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 08:35:57AM -0400, Edmond Rodriguez spake thus:
>> Well there has been lots of mail about redirection in bash.
> *snip*
>
>> So I would want a script that has only the final result of my command
>> entered (like history does) I entered, not the editing keystrokes as
>> well (back space, emacs or vi control keys....cursor movements), and
>> of course whatever else gets output to the terminal.    I realize if a
>> formatting strings goes to the terminal from an *application* I am
>> running,  I will get that, but I am just thinking of general basic
>> text i/o going to the terminal from an application.
>>
>> Edmond
>
> Here you go:
>
> I started with the perl program found here:
>
>    http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14684/removing-control-chars-including-console-codes-colours-from-script-output/18979#18979
>
> The text of that is in the 'strip-em' program below. By itself, that
> script could be used to post-process a file created by 'script' (or
> similar). It tries to "remove carriage returns and do backspace-erasing
> of previous characters", and in my simple test it seemed to do all
> right.
>
> But since that's not quite what you're looking for, and because we're
> all on a "redirection in bash" kick, I present the following
> 'script-filt' program. It sets up a named pipe, and then fires up a
> 'strip-em' process in the background to process whatever gets written to
> the pipe. It then launches 'script' and tells it to write to the named
> pipe rather than the normal 'typescript' file. From there it looks like
> a normal 'script' session -- only the logged output is subject to
> filtering. In the end, you're left with a 'typescript-filt' file. The
> filtering is not quite perfect, but it's a good start.
>
> HTH,
> -Al
>
>
> ----script-filt------------------------8<---------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set -e
>
> declare -r pname="filt-${RANDOM}"
>
> mknod "${pname}" p
>
> ./strip-em < "${pname}" > 'typescript-filt' &
>
> script -f "${pname}"
>
> rm -f "${pname}"
> ---------------------------------------8<---------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> ----strip-em---------------------------8<---------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> while (<>) {
>    s/ \e[ #%()*+\-.\/]. |
>       \r | # Remove extra carriage returns also
>       (?:\e\[|\x9b) [ -?]* [@-~] | # CSI ... Cmd
>       (?:\e\]|\x9d) .*? (?:\e\\|[\a\x9c]) | # OSC ... (ST|BEL)
>       (?:\e[P^_]|[\x90\x9e\x9f]) .*? (?:\e\\|\x9c) | # (DCS|PM|APC) ...  ST
>       \e.|[\x80-\x9f] //xg;
>       1 while s/[^\b][\b]//g;  # remove all non-backspace followed by backspace
>    print;
> }
> ---------------------------------------8<---------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
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