[PLUG] Logging STDOUT to file

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 10:13 pm, Evan Heidtmann wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am looking for a way to have everything I see on the screen sent to a
> file at the same time that it is displayed. In other words, I want to
> log all screen output to a file.
>
> I was alerted to the possiblity of such functionality by a very old
> Tektronix document describing how to do it on their UNIX system:
>
> Sends screen output to printer
>
> 1. Login to your account
> 2. Assign *filename* sys$output
> 3. Type out your commands
> 4. Deassign sys$output
> 5. Print *filename*
>
> The assign and deassign commands were ass and deass and had something to
> do with tape drives.  They do not exist on my system.
>
> If the above system worked, all I would need would be steps 1-4.
>
> Thanks,
> Evan
>
>

Bash can do this, redirecting outputs to a file:

http://ldp.uk.themoes.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html
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