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John, |
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On Thursday, 2022-02-24 09:59:50 -0500, you wrote: |
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> I use script for that purpose and it works great, the output is |
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> complete and I can just say no and its all there. |
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Nice idea. However, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, be- |
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cause an important usecase for me is installing a new or fixing an ex- |
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isting system after booting from a USB stick. The "script" binary is in |
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package "sys-apps/util-linux" which belongs to "@system", so it SHOULD |
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be on my USB stick. Like "cmp" and "diff" from package "sys-apps/diff- |
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utils" which belong to "@system" too, but which were NOT on my USB stick |
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when I used it to install my current system about three years ago, or at |
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least they were not in "PATH" (I then didn't frantically need these, so |
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I didn't really search for them). |
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I do not know what "nano" (the only editor then available) will do with |
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all the control characters in the "script" output file, and "scriptre- |
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play" doesn't seem to offer any interactive control. I do have a "gawk" |
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based shell function which turns a "script" output file into a normal |
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text file containing command log + standard output + standard error sans |
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any control characters, but this will not yet be available in that situ- |
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ation. |
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So I'm still preferring "tee" here which definitely WAS on my USB stick. |
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Sincerely, |
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Rainer |
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