On Friday 23 Jan 2004 10:02 am, c q wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:32:12 -0800, Prasanth Kumar wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:10, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > >> Mike Klinke wrote: > >> > Perhaps you could create a perl, tcl, or bash script as a front end > >> > which you can "alias" to find which will store the stdout in a file > >> > for you. > >> > >> No go.. that would only work for find, and not the hundreds of > >> other commands.. > >> > >> c q wrote: > >> > You could always save the output to a file and then use cat > >> > e.g. locate so > t.txt > >> > cat t.txt | grep whatever > >> > >> That doesn't do me much good, since the tee would be much better.. but > >> the main question now is: how to append it without having to type it > >> every time? It's supposed to be for every command executed, since the > >> will to manipulate only sparks afterwards. > >> > >> Thanks all, > >> -- > >> Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto > > > > This will not answer your question as you still need to rerun the > > commands but the typing is pretty short: > > > > locate so > > !! | grep whatever > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Prasanth > > locate file > t.txt //creates a new file or overwrites file with new data > locate file >> t.txt //appends more data to the end of t.txt I missed the start of this thread, but have you looked at the "script" command as it can log all terminal transactions to a file? Sorry if this is no help. -- Alan D
