record whatever you do in terminal in linux

Record whatever you do in the terminal.

Have you ever felt that you should record everything you do in the terminal in a file?
Then try out the following tip. In this tip we will see how to record all commands executed in the terminal along with returned outputs to a text file automatically. This may help you better troubleshoot your problems.

How to start the recording session:

Open the terminal and run this command to start a session that will record or store every commands we will type on the Terminal.

                                 #script recordterminal.txt

‘recordterminal’ is the file where All commands entered and returned outputs will now be recorded into the text file automatically. You can create a file with name to whatewere you want. This file will be saved in the current working directory.

How to stop the recording session:

To stop recording, press CTRL+d.

How to view the recording session:

 To view the recording session read the file by using ‘cat’ command.

                          #cat recordterminal.txt

How to start the recording session in the same file:

if you want to continue the session in that same text file. It’s easy go to terminal and type:

                            #script –a recordterminal.txt