Macos – Save Terminal Output command on OSX

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It is simple question but couldn't find the answer, I found and tried tee output.txt and system_profiler > output.txt but no success, they save blank text file. How do I save my terminal output with command in terminal on OSX El Capitan?

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Assuming command is the command you want to run, you can pipe it's output into the output.txt using:

$ command > output.txt

$ command | tee output.txt

If this doesn't hell it may be because the output is not printed on stdout but on stderr. The pipe > is implicit writing for 1> which means "pipe stdout to ...".
If you want to pipe stderr into the file too, you can use

$ command >output.txt 2>&1

This pipes all the output of stderr to the file-descriptor 1 (=stdout) which in turn is piped into the text file.

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Find a File by Filename in Mac OSX Terminal

In its simplest form, find takes one parameter: the path. In its actually useful form, it takes the path followed by narrowing criteria.

Thus, you want:

find (the program)
/ (the path), and
-name abc.dmg (the criteria).

find / -name abc.dmg

Linux – Capturing remote output locally in Mac Terminal

Use script to make a typescript of terminal session.

Then use sed to sanitise it.

E.g;

% script mysession

% ssh user@host

[some stuff]

% exit
Script done, output file is mysession

% sed -e '
s/'`echo "\033"`'\[[[:digit:]]*\(;[[:digit:]]*\)*[[:alpha:]]//g; # ANSI Escape sequences (perhaps over-generalised)
s/[^[:print:]]//g; # Non-printable
' mysession > mysession.txt

You should now be able to read mysession.txt without the ANSI escape codes and other non-printable characters.

This could be enhanced to delete the character before a ^H, et cetera, but you specified that you didn't want that.

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