Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-05-09 Thread Gottfried
Dear Guixers, thank you very much for your patience and infos, Simon and Kyle, now I understand how script works and I can use it. Thanks also for mentioning tealdeer.That's great, exactly what I need, examples of usage. I still have trouble to understand the man pages. I am not a hacker or

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-05-09 Thread Kyle
I have never used the command script, but I thought you might benefit from installing the tldr utility: whose name is short for "too long didn't read" It gives examples instead of all the unwanted details that man pages throw at you first even though they don't make a lick of sense without the

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-05-07 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 06 May 2022 at 20:18, Gottfried wrote: > How do I have to use "script"? Only you can answer. ;-) The question is: what is your needs? Do you need to record and track the output for each command? Personally, I only do that for the very rare cases when I am demoing. Otherwise, I

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-05-06 Thread Gottfried
Hello, Don't mind if I am asking simple questions because I have to learn the basics. How do I have to use "script"? Do I have to enter "script" in the terminal before I start other commands, so that it will start to log my shell? or can I, after a command with output, enter "script" and it

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-05-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Gottfried, script(1) is the classic way to log your shell (or any) session to a text file. See . There's more fancy stuff like asciinema but that seems like overkill here. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-05-02 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 at 18:07, Gottfried wrote: > Because I don't know how it works, I guessed that the "empty > environment" is a new created file which has been added and I wanted to > get rid of this file. The “empty environment” means an “empty profile”, so it is managed by Guix and

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-04-30 Thread Gottfried
derstood the purpose of guix shell). How can I find now the terminal output in order to find the empty environment and to delete it? I do not understand what you mean here. Once in the environment “guix >> shell”, just type exit to return to the original environment. Because I

Re: how can I find the terminal output

2022-04-30 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 20:15, Gottfried wrote: > I entered "guix shell" in the terminal, > and it created an empty environment. Empty environment means that nothing had been added, i.e., you have what is defined by the current PATH from where you call “guix shell”. >

how can I find the terminal output

2022-04-15 Thread Gottfried
I entered "guix shell" in the terminal, and it created an empty environment. How can I find now the terminal output in order to find the empty environment and to delete it? What are the general terminal commands in order to read the history of the outputs? thanks in advance Gottfried