How to record the text in the CDE xterm

[Kenneth_18]

Hi,

How do I record all the text in an CDE xterm like when I telnet to a certain server and do an ll, I want to be able to save all the text in my xterm automatically to a file for later review.

Thanks in advance!

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Look at the man page of "script".

After telnet'ing to the box, run the command 'script outfile'. This will spawn a subshell and start logging all the commands and their output into the file outfile. You can type "exit" and come out of it.

You can vi 'outfile' and view the contents.

-Sri

[T G Manikandan]

#script

[Michael Tully]

The script command will do this job, whether you in a xterm, dtterm or standard login session.
e.g.
# script /tmp/out.txt

# commands
# commands
# exit

You can then even email it to yourself should you wish.

# cat /tmp/out.txt | elm -s "my output" my.name@mydomain.com