Is there a tool to record an interactive shell session to a shell script?
For example if we entered in a terminal:
interactive2sh reconfig_foo
vim /etc/foo.cfg
ibar^ESC:q
/etc/init.d/foo restart
then I'd want the tool to create a shell script containing something like:
echo bar >> /etc/foo.cfg
/etc/init.d/foo restart
I can record an interactive session into a shell script using the code below. However, I would have thought that this was a common enough task that there would be an existing tool. Whenever I search for such a tool I just get lots of references to script
/scriptreplay
which would reproduce the output but wouldn't actually reconfigure the service "foo".
#!/bin/bash
#prototype of interactive2sh, a tool for recording a bash session into a shell script
export OUTPUT_SH_FILE=~/$1.auto.sh
if [ -e $OUTPUT_SH_FILE ]
then
find $OUTPUT_SH_FILE* -type f -exec echo -e \\n---------- '{}' \; -exec cat '{}' \;
echo ^^^^^ script already exists ^^^^^
exit 1
fi
mkdir $OUTPUT_SH_FILE.in
mkdir $OUTPUT_SH_FILE.out
echo 'SH_FILE=`readlink -f "$0"`' >> $OUTPUT_SH_FILE
echo cd `pwd` >> $OUTPUT_SH_FILE
#Start a new shell, which logs various things needed to replay the commands
bash --rcfile <(
cat << "RCFILE_EOF"
set +x
source "$HOME/.bashrc"
export PROMPT_COMMAND='RETRN_VAL=$?;echo "$(history 1 | sed "s/^[ ]*[0-9]\+[ ]*//" ) # [$$] [RETRN_VAL=$?]" >> $OUTPUT_SH_FILE'
vim () {
for f in "$@"
do
fullpath=`readlink -f "$f"`
[ -e $OUTPUT_SH_FILE.in/"$fullpath" ] || cp --parents "$fullpath" $OUTPUT_SH_FILE.in
done
/usr/bin/vim "$@"
for f in "$@"
do
fullpath=`readlink -f "$f"`
test ! -e $fullpath || cmp "$fullpath" $OUTPUT_SH_FILE.in/"$fullpath" || (
cp --parents "$fullpath" $OUTPUT_SH_FILE.out
echo mv $fullpath $fullpath.`date -r $fullpath +%F`.bak >> $OUTPUT_SH_FILE
echo cp '$SH_FILE'.out/$fullpath $fullpath >> $OUTPUT_SH_FILE
)
done
}
export PS1='[$OUTPUT_SH_FILE] \w>'
RCFILE_EOF
)
chmod +x $OUTPUT_SH_FILE
Best Answer
I've hacked together a very basic implementation which might be enough for your needs. It's based on two scripts: record and replay.
Here is the record script:
And this is the replay script:
The first one saves your current history number into /tmp/record. The second script shows all the commands you have given since record was invoked.