Recording Terminal to a .txt file

So I have a terminal session open to keep some stuff going for upwards of 10 hours of a time and I need a way to record the information outputted in the terminal to a text file as it is running. That means no stopping the script, just recording what the script says as it is running.

Is it possible?

If so, how would I go about it?

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Originally Posted by Carbonwyre

So I have a terminal session open to keep some stuff going for upwards of 10 hours of a time and I need a way to record the information outputted in the terminal to a text file as it is running. That means no stopping the script, just recording what the script says as it is running.

Is it possible?

If so, how would I go about it?

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scriptname > /location/textfile

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it is the same in Windows also,. incase you wanted to know, although the solidus is primarily a Linux thing, and \ is used in Windows, contrary to popular belief you can still use a solidus for filepaths in Windows

Redirect the command or script using .txt file.

Ex) ls> output.txt 2>&1

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Originally Posted by haqking

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scriptname > /location/textfile

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it is the same in Windows also,. incase you wanted to know, although the solidus is primarily a Linux thing, and \ is used in Windows, contrary to popular belief you can still use a solidus for filepaths in Windows

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So simply XXXXX.sh >/pathtofile/file ?

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Originally Posted by Carbonwyre

So simply XXXXX.sh >/pathtofile/file ?

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well that was what i wrote ;-)

For further reading to assist try this http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/iodirection.html

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Originally Posted by haqking

well that was what i wrote ;-)

For further reading to assist try this http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/iodirection.html

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Thanks ^_^ for a new using sometimes it's hard to wrap my head around some things. So even though I might read it 3-4 times elsewhere I still have to ask just to make sure I'm not typing 1 things wrong and confusing myself forever.

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Originally Posted by Carbonwyre

Thanks ^_^ for a new using sometimes it's hard to wrap my head around some things. So even though I might read it 3-4 times elsewhere I still have to ask just to make sure I'm not typing 1 things wrong and confusing myself forever.

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No problem, please mark the thread as solved using thread tools to help others when searching.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by haqking

No problem, please mark the thread as solved using thread tools to help others when searching.

Cheers

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I just tried out the command and the recorded document looks like

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And that's the short version. The problem is that the script actually put out quite a bit of information but it wasn't recorded.

The information is outputted from a Java Runtime and most the information is coming from the runtime not the script itself. It is displayed in the terminal but not generated by the terminal.

Any advice?

Perhaps some of the script was sending data to stderr in addition to stdout. You can try capturing both.

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scriptname > /location/textfile 2>&1

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You can also use the script utility to record a session.

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Originally Posted by Lars Noodén

Perhaps some of the script was sending data to stderr in addition to stdout. You can try capturing both.

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scriptname > /location/textfile 2>&1

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You can also use the script utility to record a session.

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I tried out the script utility first and it works ^_^ Thank you both :D I'm sure these questions get tiring to answer after 5k posts.