Incorrect options to script command

[ppslim]

Running Centos 6.6 I am unable to run the download, as invalid options are supplied to the script command.

$ curl showterm.io/showterm > showterm
$ sh showterm
showterm recording. (Exit shell when done.)
script: invalid option -- '/'
usage: script [-a] [-f] [-q] [-t] [file]

This is invoking script as script -q -t/tmp/1MIVy.timing /tmp/PZ4dl.script

$ script --version
script (util-linux-ng 2.17.2)
$ cat system-release
CentOS release 6.6 (Final)

The man page for script here indicates that -t will send timings to STDERR. It will not direct it to a file as the command being issued expects. Using the following solved this.

script $args -q -t "$scriptfile" 2>"$timingfile"

[ConradIrwin]

Unfortunately it looks like there are multiple different versions of script in the wild... When I wrote this gem I was testing with Ubuntu, so it works there. On OS X the -t flag specifies the interval between flushes :/.

Out of interest, do you have ttyrec installed on your system?

[victorbrca]

For older versions, the '-t' flag only outputs to std error (it does not output to a file).

A fix would be to output to std error and then redirect that to a file. It would work for both older and more updated versions of script:

script $args -q -t "$scriptfile" 2> "$timingfile"