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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition Don't neglect the shell ‚Äì this book will empower you to use simple commands to perform complex tasks. Whether you're a casual or advanced Linux user, the cookbook approach makes it all so brilliantly accessible and, above all, useful.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162742
Length 384 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. The Backup Plan 7. The Old-boy Network 8. Put on the Monitor's Cap 9. Administration Calls Index

Recording and playing back of terminal sessions


When you need to show somebody how to do something in the terminal, or you need to prepare a tutorial on how to do something through the command line, you would normally type the commands manually and show them. Or, you could record a screencast and playback the video to them. There are other options for doing this. Using the commands script and scriptreplay, we can record the order and timing of the commands and save the data to text files. Using these files, others can replay and see the output of the commands on the terminal until the playback is complete.

Getting ready

The script and scriptreplay commands are available in most of the GNU/Linux distributions. Recording the terminal sessions to a file will be interesting. You can create tutorials of command-line hacks and tricks to achieve a task by recording the terminal sessions. You can also share the recorded files for others to playback and see how to perform a particular task using...

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