On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > >[SNIP] > >> > >>apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. > >> > >>Mart > > > >I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list > >of stuff it will also remove is usually several printed pages, IF you > >could actually get a printout. Unfortunately, you can't even copy/paste > >for a record from that screen by any method but a screen snapshot series. > >[snip] > > I had a similar problem some time back. > Someone pointed me to a utility that saved everything sent to a console > window. > It was not "redirection" nor a "pipe" as the console retained all its > functionality. > > The procedure was: > start the utility in the console specifying a destination file > run arbitrary number of commands > [the utility recording input keystrokes and resulting output] > terminate the utility > close console if desired
I suspect the program you're after is "script". And yes, many of the really useful unix commands are really difficult to search for :) > > I understand the typical use of the utility is in a classroom situation > where instructor needs to see exactly what the student did. I know I saved > the message but I can't come up with keywords to retrieve it. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54bd1f10.9050...@cloud85.net >
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