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Paul Tarjan
Paul Tarjan

Reputation: 50602

Command for demoing my command

Oftentimes I want to post something to a github bug like

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (216.58.195.238): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 216.58.195.238: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=1064.747 ms

Right now I run the command, use screen's C-a C-[ to highlight the area, enter to copy it to that buffer, paste it into vim, write it to a file and then cat that into pbcopy. There has to be a better way.

Is there a command I can run which will tee the command I type prefixed with a $ and all the output to pbcopy? Or anything close? I envision

$ demo ping google.com
PING google.com (216.58.195.238): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 216.58.195.238: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=1064.747 ms
^C
$

and now the original thing I pasted is in my mac clipboard.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 54

Answers (1)

goedson
goedson

Reputation: 643

You can do

script log.txt
ping www.google.com
exit

And you'll have your command and output saved in log.txt

Edit

Based on your comment, what you want is 

command="whatever command you want to run"
echo \$ $command > log.txt
$command >> log.txt

I don't think you'll find a single command that does exactly this.

Upvotes: 1

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