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From: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
To: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: capturing output of a script requiring answers to prompts
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:27:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050718182714.GB19066@blorf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c9nd157fcj924v4fdcjlesm9fvq7c5lb6@4ax.com>

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:52:51PM +0100, zzapper wrote:
> How can I capture the output of a script requiring answers to prompts.

The best way to capture the full output of an interactive session is
using the "script" utility (which comes with most unix-like operating
systems):

    script output.txt

That requires you to run your SCRIPT-FILE from inside the subshell and
then "exit".  Alternately, if your version of "script" is new enough:

    script -c ./SCRIPT-FILE output.txt

The zsh-specific way to output data to both the terminal and a file is
to use multi-IO:

    ./SCRIPT-FILE >&1 >output.txt

However, that doesn't capture what the user types.

..wayne..


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-18 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-18 12:52 zzapper
2005-07-18 15:54 ` zzapper
2005-07-18 18:27 ` Wayne Davison [this message]
2005-07-18 19:29   ` zzapper

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