You never had a friend like me - script is my bestie sometimes

PROBLEM:

If I do anything of interest in my home lab, I like to use the script command to create a typescript file that I can refer to later if I need to reproduce the results.

SOLUTION:

use the script command:

server1:~l$ script what_i_am_doing_typescript.txt

Script started, output file is what_i_am_doing_typescript.txt

server1:~ $ date

Thu Feb 20 10:42:24 CST 2020

server1:~ $ exit

exit

Script done, output file is what_i_am_doing_typescript.txt

FUN FACT:

If I later want to remove the carriage returns (CONTROL M) from the typescript, file use this command in vi to remove them and save (you will have to add a CONTROL V before the CONTROL M to have it work)

:^s/^M//g

ZZ

https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/150/remove-m-characters-at-end-of-lines-in-vi/

Of course, I do like

:set list

:set number 

in vi sometimes also.