so I am writing a bash script to create some VMs and I need to log my command line's output so at a certain point I am trying to use script command, but it cuts my script off until i exit the command,
is there a way to continue execution of my script and log my command line?
The script looks like:
script screen.log
for i in 1 2 3
do
onetemplate instantiate "mano" --user $CUSER --endpoint $CENDPOINT
done
exit
and i need to cut it at exit.
Just script starts a new shell. To have script run a command use script -c command. This is all documented in the manual page.
You may want to try:
export CUSER=...
export CENDPOINT=...
script screen.log <<\EOF
for i in 1 2 3
do
onetemplate instantiate "mano" --user $CUSER --endpoint $CENDPOINT
done
EOF
(The export is required to make the variables CUSER and CENDPOINT available in the shell run by script.)
onetemplate instantiate "mano" --user $CUSER --endpoint $CENDPOINT three times and log the results in screen.log. By the way, what's wrong with onetemplate instantiate ... >> screen.log? I'm curious why you chose script as your logging method.What if I used the -c option, how would i do it, because if i use it like
script -c onetemplate instantiate "mano" --user xxxxxx --endpoint xxxxxxit says that --user is unrecognized option
You'd have to quote the entire command, e. g.
script -c "onetemplate instantiate mano --user xxxxxx --endpoint xxxxxx"
