When script is used on a host with a relatively small free disk space, it
is sometimes desirable to limit the size of the captured output. This
can now be enforced with the --output-limit option.
The --output-limit option lets the user specify a maximum size. The program
uses the size parsing from strutils and thus supports the usual
multiplicative suffixes (kiB, KB, MiB, MB, etc.). After the specified
number of bytes have been written to the output file, the script program
will terminate the child process.
Due to buffering, the size of the output file might exceed the specified
limit. This limit also does not include the start and done messages.
The race test was throwing an error dur to a variable being "" in some cases.
Quoting the variable in the equal test took care of that test.
[kzak@redhat.com: - use done() to stop script
- count also timing file
- remove unnamed member initialization in ctl struct
- add to bash-completion]
Signed-off-by: Fred Mora <fmora@datto.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
[kzak@redhat.com: - merge two patches from Antonio to the one,
- update the patch]
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
This patch does only the following:
* Order SEE ALSO entries first by section name, then alphabetically
within section
* Adds one or two missing commas in SEE ALSO lists
* Removes one or two periods that were (inconsistently) used
at the end of SEE ALSO lists.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
- use exit in .profile to avoid non-logged session after typing "exit"
- document that script can read more from stdin than the command inside:
echo -e 'script -c "read a b ; echo a=\$a b=\$b >defs.sh"\n1 2\necho Done' | sh
Script started, file is typescript
1 2
echo Done
Script done, file is typescript
Karel Zak wrote:
> Would be better to learn people to fix their shell initialization
> files to not call script(1) for non-interactive sessions?
It makes sense.
From 8fff32e65399ae07f70e12568d4d5278725673a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:02:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] script.1: Document behavior in non-interactive shells
And discourage users from such use.
Specifying 'script --quiet ...' still produces the 'Script started'
message in the typescript file. The --quiet option implies that the
script program should not log any of its output to the typescript file.
Originally reported at:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=693966
Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Add two spaces as the required third argument of the date line to make
the specified date get used instead of today's date. Incorporate the
section number into the page title, then use an empty section number,
so that specifying an explicit section/volume name will work.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in
the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration"
at the top center.
Also improve here and there the one-line program description.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Also improve the description of the --timing option,
and discard a then superfluous paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
The --force will allow default output destination, e.g.
typescript file, to be hard or symbolic link.
[kzak@redhat.com: - remove "error:" prefix from errx()]
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Karel Zak
Fred Mora
Antonio Ospite
Sébastien Helleu
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Benno Schulenberg
Stanislav Brabec
James Hunt
Sami Kerola