Re: Writing terminal output to a file

[Geordie McBain]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:31:44AM -0600, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> I have an up-to-date Debian sid system on a PC. I have installedDebian 
> packages "octave2.1", version 2.1.67-1 and "octave-forge", version 
> 2004.11.16-6. I use the bash shell.
> 
> I am currently installing into Octave a wavelet program called WaveLab. 
> As part of this, I need to run, from Octave, a command, "startup", that 
> calls gcc many times. The calls to gcc are output to the terminal. I 
> would like to write a copy of this output to a file (like "tee") or 
> redirect the output to a file (like "&>"). In general, how can I put in 
> a file a copy of everything that Octave sends to the terminal (including 
> stuff put through the pager)?

Does diary do what you want?  For example:

octave> diary "octave_diary.txt"
octave> version
ans = 2.1.67
octave> diary off
octave> system ("cat octave_diary.txt");
octave> version
ans = 2.1.67
octave> diary off
octave>



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