Redirect STDIN

[Ollie R]

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!

[Karthik S S]

Try,

ssh TARGET | tee target.out

Regards,
Karthik

[Ollie R]

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

[Massimo Bianchi]

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

[Ollie R]

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

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

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.

[John Meissner]

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

[Caesar_3]

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

[Caesar_3]

Hello again!

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

Caesar