Hi,
Is there any file by which I can see what has happened inside the various terminals I use ?
ex. suppose I give

$ ls -la
.........
.........
.........

$ vim /some/file/
$ cd /some/dir/
$ ./somescript.sh
........
........


etc etc..
I want not only the history of command used, but also there output as shown in the terminal. i.e I want the output of "ls -la" also etc.
A file which has whatever you type/get on the terminal.

Is there any system file which stores "all" the contents of "all" the terminals in use?
I know the use of redirection operators , but for those commands its not done.?

Kindly help.!

Thanks,
Niks
Bangalore, India

I really doubt that there is anything like this---In my case, such a file would become very large in a matter of days.

I believe that--at the beginning of a session--you could set up a redirect to a file. Then you can probably do something like call the terminal program with that command as a first argument.

If you want to send the output of a command to a file, use:

If you want stderr to go in the file too, place an '&' before the '>'.

Wow, a history of commands is most often more than I want. The output of them would probably mean I couldn't find the needle for the haystack.

However, you might take a look at screen. You can set up a history buffer in screen which includes all the output on the terminal. It can create a screen log file as well as a scroll back buffer. Take a look at the -L and -h options.