how to record what eve is happening on aptitude

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:59:47 +1100
Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 30/01/12 16:50, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> > I am trying to install kword
> >
> > sudo aptitude install kword
> 
> [pruned]
> 
> 
> 
> > I want to record every thing which is happening on terminal.
> > I tried some thing like following
> >
> > sudo aptitude install -y kword --log-level=debug
> > --log-file=~/Downloads/baj.txt but there was no file baj.txt and
> > also aptitude is not able to install kword.
> 
> Use the pipe command: "sudo aptitude install word > logfile.txt"
> maybe?
> 
> BC
> 
Not to be too pedantic, but that is a BASH output redirect, not a pipe
command which is, "|" without the quote marks.

Here's a good definition of pipes and pipelining and how they differ
from redirects:
http://www.linfo.org/pipes.html

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