bugGNU Screen - Bugs: bug #23860, Emit timing info for log

 
 

bug #23860: Emit timing info for log

Submitter:  Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Submitted:  Tue 15 Jul 2008 06:35:07 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  1 - Wish
Priority:  * 3 - Low Status:  Need Discussion
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  None
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  Later
Work Required:  0 - Hours
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Thu 19 Feb 2009 01:21:37 AM UTC, comment #4: 

D McD: in the meantime, you can use the "script" command from the (non-GNU) linuxutils package (installed on most GNU/Linux systems, I think), and run screen under it. It allows you to do exactly this sort of thing: by specifying the -t option, it will pump timing info out to stderr, so you can save it to a file, and feed it back to a program called "scriptreplay".

There is also a program named "ttyrec" that does this sort of thing, I understand.

So this feature request is more of a convenience thing than anything: it is already easy to do this, but requires a separate program.

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Wed 18 Feb 2009 10:23:04 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I am looking to do the exact same thing, so please post if you find an exact solution.

D McD <dirkshire>
Thu 17 Jul 2008 09:37:47 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Well, what I'm specifically referring to with this feature request, is script's ability to generate timing info that, when fed along with the typescript to the scriptreplay program, can allow the user to replay a session, including pauses between each keystroke, so one has a terminal "video" of the recorded typescript.

The idea is to eliminate any need to run script within screen (you can just start screen's logging mechanism; optionally with timing info).

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Thu 17 Jul 2008 09:01:08 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Would this be helpful here?

       logtstamp [on|off]
       logtstamp after [secs]
       logtstamp string [string]

       This  command  controls  logfile  time-stamp mechanism of screen.  If time-stamps are turned "on", screen adds a
       string containing the current time to the logfile after two minutes of inactivity.  When  output  continues  and
       more  than  another two minutes have passed, a second time-stamp is added to document the restart of the output.
       You can change this timeout with the second form of the command. The third form  is  used  for  customizing  the
       time-stamp string (`-- %n:%t -- time-stamp -- %M/%d/%y %c:%s --\n' by default).


Juergen Weigert <jnweiger>
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Tue 15 Jul 2008 06:35:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

It would be useful for screen to produce timing information for its log outputs, equivalent to invoking "script -t" (for versions of script that support -t), suitable for playback with the scriptreplay command.

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>

 

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