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# Record SSH session for reporting

The issue is whenever logging ssh to a linux vm for investigating or doing something, after done, I want to report on **what I did** for writing into ticket. In the past, I use the `history`command and scroll back to the beginning. It's waste of time & effort, sometime cannot trace because of lacking scroll or closing terminal tab by human mistake, or wanna trace in the next few days.

So that I need a good solution for this to work effectively

```bash
touch /ssh.log
ssh <target> -v | tee -ia /ssh.log
```

For seeing output for tracking & reporting, use `tail`

```bash
tail -f -n +1 /ssh.log
```