I'm using the linux 'script' command http://www.linuxcommand.org/man_pages/script1.html to log all input and output in an interactive bash script.
At the moment I have to call the script command, then run my bash script, then exit.
I want to run the script and exit commands from within the actual bash script itself. How can I do this?
I've tried script -a but that doesn't work for interactive scripts.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
"script" forks a shell (or a command specified with "-c"), so I don't think you can call "script" from within the script you want to "script".
Take this (annoyingly) interactive shell script (called "fred"):
#!/bin/bash while read -p 'Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? ' WHO do : done Run it and "script" the interaction to a file:
[myles@marklar ~]$ script -c ~/fred fred.log Script started, file is fred.log Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Repeat Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Repeat Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Repeat Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Script done, file is fred.log The log file contains:
[myles@marklar ~]$ cat fred.log Script started on Mon 12 Nov 2012 11:44:41 PM EST Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Repeat Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Repeat Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Repeat Pete and Repeat were on a boat. Pete jumped off. Who was left? Script done on Mon 12 Nov 2012 11:44:51 PM EST In short, you'll have to call your interactive shell script with the "script" command, as far as I know.
You can trivially redirect all output of your script to a file using the following construct:
exec &> /your/script.log In addition, bash allows you to log all commands it executes, all input it receives, and all expansions it performs when you add the following:
set -x If these are the first two lines of your script, everything that the script is doing will be logged.
