better .bash_history?

[lolium]

i know we can use the history command and itll come up with like
1 ssh ...
2 ls -l

etc, is there a way to set it up to capture what the command prints out?

for example if i use custom command awe use at work lets say "db" to search database and it brings up - name - server - password and things like that, is there anything i can set in a .bash* file to capture that so to speak a more advanced bash history

Ive looked online and i cant find anything like this

Can anybody advise any solution which would fit my desire?

apologies that doesnt appear too clear i mean for all commands aswell for example bash_history will say
ping google.com


but i wish it to say something along the lines of

ping google.com
PING google.com (209.85.148.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.85.148.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=22.690 ms
64 bytes from 209.85.148.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=21.933 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 21.933/22.312/22.690/0.378 ms


hopefully this is more clear

Thanks in advanced

Sam

[haqking]

i know we can use the history command and itll come up with like
1 ssh ...
2 ls -l

etc, is there a way to set it up to capture what the command prints out?

for example if i use custom command awe use at work lets say "db" to search database and it brings up - name - server - password and things like that, is there anything i can set in a .bash* file to capture that so to speak a more advanced bash history

Ive looked online and i cant find anything like this

Can anybody advise any solution which would fit my desire?

Thanks in advanced

Sam

you can redirect all output to a text file with > filename.txt

not sure if you can store that in the command history though, i think it is a per command basis

[Lars Noodén]

you can redirect all output to a text file with > filename.txt

not sure if you can store that in the command history though, i think it is a per command basis

You can do something like this:

bash 2>&1 | tee /tmp/filename.txt

That will get everything.

[Jonathan L]

etc, is there a way to set it up to capture what the command prints out?

Hi Sam

There are two ways to do this which might help you, both designed for making teaching materials or logging what you're doing for your notes. I don't know that either is suitable for running all the time though.

1. script

This is a program which is like a shell, but which makes the file you describe.
Do this:

cd /tmp
script

And then in that 'shell', do

pwd
exit

It makes this file:

Script started on Wed 26 Oct 2011 13:15:59 BST
$ pwd
/tmp
$ exit
exit
Script done on Wed 26 Oct 2011 13:16:09 BST

See http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/.../script.1.html

2. xterm logging

You can run an xterm with the flag -l for logging, and you get a very similar result. I don't believe that the default Gnome terminal will do this.

xterm -l

Makes a file called for example Xterm.log.computer.2011.10.26.13.12.46.6810

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...1/xterm.1.html

Hope those help.

Kind regards
Jonathan.