shell recording

.zshrc

# for spyshell
function zshexit() {
	cat /Users/`whoami`/.termlogs/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.txt | perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' | col -b > temp
	mv temp /Users/`whoami`/.termlogs/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.txt
	exit
}

readme

This will help you to record everything you input and all output from your terminal to a file, while you work on your terminal normally.

First, put spyshell in /usr/local/bin/
Add the line /usr/local/bin/spyshell in the file /etc/shells
Do `chsh -s /usr/local/bin/spyshell`
Add the zshexit function in your .zshrc file.

This will create a file in ~/.termlogs/ named with the date, and will append till the day is over. The output is also stripped from any non-printable characters.
You can modify it so that it launches bash, or any other shell, change the location of the logs, as well as the names.



credits: a gist I cannot find, and a lot googling..

spyshell

#!/bin/bash

script="/usr/bin/script"
SHELL="/usr/local/bin/zsh"

if [ -z "$SPYSHELL" ]; then
    export SPYSHELL=yes
    $script -aq -t 0 /Users/`whoami`/.termlogs/`date +%Y-%m-%d`.txt
else
    exec $SHELL
fi

Thanks a lot for putting this together! I had to execute a few additional commands.

1. Make spyshell executable: chmod +x /usr/local/bin/spyshell
2. Make the termlogs directory: mkdir ~/.termlogs

I also had to use sudo to modify /etc/shells: (sudo vim /etc/shells).