Dear Guixers, thank you very much for your patience and infos, Simon and Kyle, now I understand how script works and I can use it. Thanks also for mentioning tealdeer.That's great, exactly what I need, examples of usage. I still have trouble to understand the man pages. I am not a hacker or programmer and am not using the commandline on a daily basis. So I am still "hacking" on the basis. I am not used to understanding the programmers language yet. I am learning day by day. Gottfried Am 09.05.22 um 13:42 schrieb Kyle: > I have never used the command script, but I thought you might benefit from installing the tldr utility: whose name is short for "too long didn't read" It gives examples instead of all the unwanted details that man pages throw at you first even though they don't make a lick of sense without the right background knowledge and perspective. There are many implementations, but I like tealdeer. > > guix install tealdeer > > Then type: > > tldr script > > That produces a few examples for me. > > > On May 7, 2022 11:42:28 AM EDT, zimoun wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 06 May 2022 at 20:18, Gottfried wrote: >> >>> How do I have to use "script"? >> >> Only you can answer. ;-) The question is: what is your needs? Do you >> need to record and track the output for each command? >> >> Personally, I only do that for the very rare cases when I am demoing. >> Otherwise, I only redirect the output of a command to a file using ’>’. >> >> >>> Do I have to enter "script" in the terminal before I start other >>> commands, so that it will start to log my shell? >> >> Yes. >> >>> or can I, after a command with output, enter "script" and it will log my >>> output in a file typescript? >> >> No. >> >> However, you can redo the same command to append the output to a >> previous ’typescript’. For instance, in your terminal: >> >> ls >> script >> ls >> exit >> pwd >> script -a >> cd /tmp/ >> ls >> pwd >> exit >> >> Then the file ’typescript’ contains the session (input and output) >> between ’script’ and ’exit’ (included). Therefore, the first ’pwd’ will >> be not recorded. >> >> >> >>> I tried several times, but it didn't work. It didn't record anything, >>> when I opened the file typescript. >>> >>> So can you show me an example how to use it? >>> What Options are useful? >> >> Well, have you read the manpage of ’script’? Type ’man script’. >> >> >> Hope that helps, >> simon >> > -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Why is HTML email a security nightmare? See https://useplaintext.email/ Please avoid sending me MS-Office attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html