Terminal: save history?

[maxschleiss at bluewin.ch]

>From: Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Terminal: save history?
>
>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:57:37 +0200 - Benjamin Winkel <uzspde at uni-bonn.de>
>wrote :
>
>> Hi,
>
>Hello,

Hi all,

sorry to drop in like this but this is typically something I would like to
have and never asked about for a long time.

>
>> I use to have several terminals open at the same time. Now I would
>> like to save the complete history of ALL instances or even better to
>> have it logging directly to one or maybe several files. I know that
>> e.g. the bash uses a file ".bash_history". But this is only updated
>> if I close one instance and only the commands of the closed terminal
>> are saved into it.
>> 
>> Is this task even possible with Linux itself or - if not - could You 
>> implement this functionality into the XFCE Terminal application?
>> 
>
>Do you expect to save only the commands or even the output?

In my case, and probably also Benjamin's, I would only want Terminal to save
the commands of all the tabs or terminal windows open.

>
>> Thanks a lot!

Thank you for asking

>> 
>> Benjamin
>
>Mike

Maximilian