topic Re: Redirect STDIN in Operating System - HP-UX

Redirect STDIN

Ollie R — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:16:34 GMT

Hi,
Using OpenSSH, I connect from one system, called BASTION, to another system, called TARGET.
I wish to record the commands entered at the keyboard while connected to TARGET into a file on BASTION. That is, I wish to record STDIN only, without STDOUT.
Does anyone know how I can achieve this?
Thanks!

Re: Redirect STDIN

Karthik S S — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:29:39 GMT

Try,

ssh TARGET | tee target.out

Regards,
Karthik

Re: Redirect STDIN

Ollie R — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:30:51 GMT

Thanks, but that also does STDOUT. I don't want STDOUT as I'm trying to produce a history of commands typed only.

Re: Redirect STDIN

Massimo Bianchi — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:33:10 GMT

Hi,
and if you enable history on the TARGET you should get what you want.

For example, putting HISTFILE and EDITOR variables in .profile.

If you wish to keep track of command, you can also personalize the name of the history file for each connection,
export HISTFILE=$HOME/.sh_history`tty|tr / _`

HTH,
Massimo

Re: Redirect STDIN

Ollie R — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:39:09 GMT

Thanks, but I wish to record the STDIN on BASTION, not TARGET.

Re: Redirect STDIN

Jean-Louis Phelix — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:55:57 GMT

Hi,

Did you try 'tee file | command' (ie tee /tmp/a | remsh hostname). It works, but I can't avoid echoing of all commands ...

Regards.

Re: Redirect STDIN

John Meissner — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:05:21 GMT

This won't save the output to Bastion but it will save all Std in and out on Target

script

This will record everything done - input and output.
you could then ftp it to bastion if you wanted to

Re: Redirect STDIN

Caesar_3 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:29:57 GMT

Hello!

The best for your problem is to use
the "script" command so you will see the
whole input in the file!
You can also use the command | tee logfile
But script better.

Caesar

Re: Redirect STDIN

Caesar_3 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:39:07 GMT

Hello again!

You can also use tee -a filename to
take the stdin

Caesar