Multiple ways to log terminal sessions in file.

Add to end of .bashrc to start recording session when you open the terminal.

We test for shell's parent process not being script and then run script

test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID | awk '{print $1}')" == 'script' || (script -f $HOME/Documents/terminal_logs/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S")_shell.log)

To read the log use “less -R” (see this too https://superuser.com/questions/236930/how-to-clean-up-output-of-linux-script-command)

apt install asciinema

test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID | awk '{print $1}')" == 'sh' || (asciinema rec $HOME/Documents/terminal_logs/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S").cast)

pip3 install TermRecord

test "$(ps -ocommand= -p $PPID | awk '{print $1}')" == 'script' || (TermRecord -o $HOME/Documents/terminal_logs/$(date +"%d-%b-%y_%H-%M-%S").html)

• Ubuntu 20.04.3

• https://asciinema.org
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/25639/how-to-automatically-record-all-your-terminal-sessions-with-script-utility
• https://github.com/theonewolf/TermRecord
• https://linoxide.com/linux-terminal-recording-tools/