Output of last shell command

Question

Not until midway through a 3 hour build script, I\'ll remember that I want to see something at the beginning of the output after it\'s done. At this point I\'ve exceeded th

Answer 1

script(1) is exactly what you need:

script
make
exit
vim typescript

The script program will start a new shell and save input and output to the typescript file. When you're done, just close the shell with exit or ^D. If you'd rather not start a new shell but just run your build, you can use: script -c .