Getting Output Terminal History on Ubuntu

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Is there any way to get Output History from the Ubuntu terminal? Like a log of everything that rolled into a terminal?

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Output from a terminal:

H1) define a long terminal history, and cut&paste the terminal to a file

H2) use command script file (keeps the session in file) -- script has several options that may be useful.

Editing in more detail:

H1) the terminal keeps a scroll-bar accessible history (by default 512 line, configurable in the terminal profile). If using the mouse we select the desired output we can make cut&paste inside your favorite editor.

H2) the Command script was created for issues such as that raised in this question. (see man script); experiment 

script log
... executar alguns comandos
(CTR-D)
... e vê o conteudo do ficheiro log

  • I don’t understand anything, you can better elaborate your answer?

  • @jpklzm, see if editing helped. (what concretely is hard to understand?)

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Well, it’s not very pleasant to read, but it works:

Before you start using the terminal (and assuming Voce uses bash, which is the default shell on Ubuntu):

bash | tee bash.output

At the end, you’ll have a file bash.output in his home with the exit, but all together, without showing where it came from.

  • The command history returns all inputs I made in the terminal. I don’t want inputs, I want outputs

  • Oops, I’m sorry. I read it wrong.

  • Now yes :P Sorry for the previous 'answer'.

  • But for example, I’m already using the terminal and I want to get his history. My current scenario, I’m trying to replicate a system error in python. This morning I managed to replicate the error but I did not save the traceback, I have to recover this traceback? I still have the terminal window open.

  • Ah, do you mean something that happened in the past? I don’t think there’s a way :(

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    =/ I’ll leave the thread open and see if any miracles appear around here.

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    @jpklzm was thinking today about a way to do what you would like (to get the result of commands from the past), but I came to the conclusion that it would not make sense. no matter how much Voce could make a script that would fix all the commands on .bash_history, some of these commands have no output, or will not work (something like a cd dir that say is not in the right place). ie, I think the miracle does not exist XD

  • It’s a shame, it would be something very useful.

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There is another way and I cannot help but comment. In the personal folder there is a file called . bash_history(/home/user/.bash_history). If you open from Nautilus, give a Ctrl+h to display the hidden files and you will find it. If you want to see it directly in the shell, type:

cat /home/username/.bash_history | more

Press enter to display the following.

  • this file only shows the inputs, the op wanted the output of the commands.

  • Really. I failed to look at the issue and some of the comments.

  • idem XD was basically my first answer class :)

  • I did a better search on this. To have the outputs saved it seems that one should configure this previously.

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