yburge:

In addition to the answers you've already received, if you're on a *nix box you can also use the script or tee commands.

The script command is used to capture an entire command shell session, something1 like:

devo$ script junk.log
devo$ ls
foo   bar   baz
devo$ exit

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The first script command opens a new shell where all I/O is written to junk.log in addition to the console. The exit ends the shell, and the contents of junk.log should1 be:

devo$ ls
foo   bar   baz
devo$ exit

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The tee command simply copies everything going to STDOUT to the specified file, like this:

devo$ ls | tee junk.log

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Here, the contents of tee would be "foo bar baz\n". Note that the STDERR would still go to wherever it normally goes. You can capture STDERR also if you do something1 like this:

devo$ (ls 2>&1) | tee junk.log

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Hope this helps....

1Note: I didn't actually run this on the console of a *nix box, as my Linux box is currently down. So I faked the examples, and may have mucked it up somewhat.

--roboticus

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