Oct 28: Script

Well, as the which blog was deemed useful (although most commentors did already know about it), how about the script Unix command?

It's very useful for keeping a record of an extended series of actions, like those a DBA will often encounter when implementing a complex change. It's also useful for attaching a complex working example to a Service Request to illustrate a problem. (That was the example that cropped up the other day that prompted this blog.)
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#1 - Noons said:
2007-10-29 05:18 - (Reply)

tee -a
is also not bad at all as a quick and dirty "script".

#2 - laurent schneider said:
2007-10-29 08:14 - (Reply)

I do not like in script that you need to be clever to uncipher the command that have been typed

If the admin types

hello[CTRL-A][CTRL-D][CTRL-D][CTRL-D][CTRL-E]s

the command issued is

ls

another way is to turn on logging on a terminal basis, like xterm -lf filename, but it does not work on AIX :-(

Off topic, but a good tool to run script that should not crash when the user PC or session crashes is SCREEN.

Check
man screen

Cheers

#2.1 - Doug Burns said:
2007-10-29 18:33 - (Reply)

I do not like in script that you need to be clever to uncipher the command that have been typed

True, and a definite weakness, but hopefully not so bad when I'm just running set procedures. It might also be deemed useful (if tricky) to decipher the real actions ;-)

#3 - bill banham 2007-11-02 14:10 - (Reply)

script is excellent but as with all sub-shells you lose aliases and functions so remember to source .profile again after typing script.

#3.1 - Doug Burns said:
2007-11-02 21:27 - (Reply)

Good point, Bill


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