how to capture text output during program?

John Gordon gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
Sat May 25 06:24:45 AEST 1991


steckner at lri.uwo.ca (Michael Steckner) writes:

>I was wondering if there is a simple way for me to capture the output
>to the screen generated while I run a program which also requires
>periodic user input. Use of redirects is easy, if you dont also
>have to answer any questions the program might having during execution.

>This would be equivalent to the MSdos Cntrl Print command which automatically
>captures what ever comes across the screen and dumps it to the printer. In
>this unix case, i would like to save it too a file instead.

>Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

	Check out the "script" command.
John



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