how to record what eve is happening on aptitude

[Basil Chupin]

On 30/01/12 17:34, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> 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
>
> Cybe R. Wizard

I was wondering how long it would take you to spot this, Number 99. Good 
show, and well done!

BC

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