When running some tests, I need to run a series of commands. It would be extremely useful to me, and save me a lot of time, if there was a way to do all of these things:
- Run the command I need to run
- Redirect all the output from the command to a specified file
- Include the original command in the specified file
- Print the output from the original command in the terminal
People have suggested using tee to me which does a great job of printing to terminal as well as sending to a file but doesn't include the original command. What I'd like to end up with is a file where the first line is the command I ran, and then below that is the output from the command.
Someone suggested this:
echo "ls -l" | xargs -I{} bash -c "echo >> output.file; eval {} >> output.file"
But this doesn't either print the output in the terminal or include the original command in the file.
I'd appreciate any ideas.
