How to Record and Replay Linux Terminal Sessions using ‘script’ and ‘scriptreplay’ Commands
Aaron Kili
In this guide we are going to look at how to use a script and scriptreplay commands in Linux that can help you to record commands and their output printed on your terminal during a given session. How to Record Linux Terminal Using script Command The script command stores terminal activities in a log file that can be named by a user, when a name is not provided by a user, the default file name, typescript is used. [email protected] ~ $ exit Script done, file is history_log.txt If the script can not write to the named log file then it shows an error. [email protected] ~ $ script -c ‘hostname’ script.log Script started, file is script.log tecmint.com Script done, file is script.log If you want script to run in a quiet mode then you can use the -q option. When the log_file replayed using the timing information, the commands recorded are run and their output is displayed at the same time the original output was displayed while being recorded.
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