If you want to capture something like commands when you are installing some software, compiling some opensource codes or just want to see debug logs printed on the terminal by some program, there is command “script” which does all the work very efficiently for us. Just open a terminal, and type below command before you want things to be captured,
$ script --timing=time.txt script.log Script started, file is script.log
devbee@laptop:~/wp$ pwd /home/devbee/wp
devbee@laptop:~/wp$ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.4.0-71-generic (buildd@lcy01-27) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #92-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 24 12:58:08 UTC 2017
devbee@laptop:~/wp$ date Sun Dec 31 09:48:05 IST 2017
devbee@laptop:~/wp$ time real 0m0.000s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s
Now, lets say, you are done with your recording, then type “exit” to stop script command running,
$ exit exit Script done, file is script.log
Now to replay script recording using “scriptreplay” command, use below command,
scriptreplay --timing=time.txt script.log