Inspired by the other answers, I started using script. I had to use -c to get it working though. All other answers, including tee, different script examples did not work for me.
Context:
- Ubuntu 16.04
- running behavior tests with
behave and starting shell command during the test with python's subprocess.check_call()
Solution:
script --flush --quiet --return /tmp/ansible-output.txt --command "my-ansible-command"
Explanation for the switches:
--flush was needed, because otherwise the output is not well live-observable, coming in big chunks--quiet supresses the own output of the script tool-c, --command directly provides the command to execute, piping from my command to script did not work for me (no colors)--return to make script propagate the exit code of my command so I know if my command has failed
