I want to use the script program to record my session any time that I am working within a certain directory, such as my ~/projects directory.
So for example, I would cd into ~/projects, and script would automatically start recording everything to a log in that directory. As soon as I leave ~/projects, then script would stop. Also, ~/projects has many subdirectories; the log file needs to remain at the top level of the directory tree.
Any ideas on how this would be implemented? Even better, is there a method of implementing this that would also work with other programs easily?
export PROMPT_COMMAND="if [[ "$HOME/projects" == "$PWD" ]]; then unset PROMPT_COMMAND; script; fiin your.profile, but it won't automatically exit and will only trigger if you go into the top directory$PWD, but its triggered manually. I was thinking about aliasing thecdcommand in such a way that after changing to the desired directory it also performs this check and starts/endsscriptappropriately, but I wasn't sure if this might cause unforeseen problems. I'm not yet familiar with other ways to have actions performed in the background based on the$PWDcdcommand with a shell function that doescommand cd "$@"and then checks$PWDand startsscriptif the user is in the right directory. The problem is exitingscript, because it fires up its own shell subprocess. The customcdshell function could issue anexitas soon as the user moves elsewhere, but since the current directory is local to each subprocess, the invocation ofcdthat takes the user out of the special directory would not be able to actually change his/her working directory.