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Hi, I only know basic bash —just enough to get by for my day-to-day needs.

Basically I am learning Java at Uni, and they want example outputs.

is what I'm using at the moment, but this only grabs the STDOUT, but not the STDIN data I'm typing into the file.

Is there a way to get both STDIN and OUT into the same file, in the correct place?

a simple (stupidly pointless) example to show what I mean; say MyProgram simply asks for your favourite number, and you type in '5':



As you can see, output.txt only contains the STDOUT, no input, and generally there wasn't a newline.
Whereas I would like to include the STDIN in the file



As you can see the input was recorded into the file too, including the newline character.

If this isn't possible from this way of thinking, perhaps if there is a command which copies everything — like a print screen, but for the command line?

I honestly have not idea, any insight and guidance will be much appreciated.
Thank You.

I can't think of a way directly of capturing STDIN for an interactive session, but there are a few ways to capture the terminal output.
Firstly your terminal software will have an option for capturing the screen output. On Konsole the option is File->Save output as
all this does is capture whatever is on the screen (and in the scrollback buffer) to a txt file.

When I do production work I often use the screen (-L switch for logging) and script commands to log what I'm doing. I suggest you check the man pages for these.

All of these have minor issues, Konsole's output save does not capture hidden characters and this makes the displaying the information afterwards look "clean".
script and screen do capture hidden characters but this can also make the output less clear as the software used to display the txt file (eg vi or less) will not interpret the hidden characters in the same way as the terminal software.

DW

Note that you have to close STDIN after the program is completed (press Ctrl+D).