[ILUG] Loging commands and output

[Gary Coady]

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:00:18PM +0100, Anton Mc Kee wrote:
> Is there any way I can log the out put of every command I type to a text
> file.
> 
> SO for example if I type ls -aol I get the command and it's outout. I know
> that there was something linke that in Linux but I think it may have been
> for programming. BTW I don't want to have to type ls -aol > output.text |
> cat output.text

Well for logging the output of every command, try
script -a <file>

For logging individual files,
ls -aol | tee <file>

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