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To better specify my question, I have decided that I want every keystroke to be piped to a package called safecat which uses the maildir algorithm, which is in turn delivering it's output to a remote machine via ssh.

I just feel like when i do mess up, which i will, it would be really cool have that record of exactly what i did on that particular machine to result in such hilarious catastrophe.

If there is a totally different means to achieve the same result, I'm not fussed, but from what i can tell the final keystrokes are difficult to recover.

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    Consider looking at the "script" command, which records terminal sessions. Commented May 9, 2023 at 16:25
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    Also consider changing you title to something like "How do I pipe my raw keystrokes through a command before sending it through ssh to remote systems" Commented May 9, 2023 at 16:27
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    it's an all new low for me but I'm going to go ahead and cut and paste that. thanks. Commented May 9, 2023 at 16:32
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    Welcome to the wacky world of Unix. If you ever get the feeling that it seems like things are coherent, but you can't quite see the pattern, just know: people break the pattern all the time. Your intuition isn't wrong, but it isn't right, either. But the power is so much fun. Commented May 9, 2023 at 16:39
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    If you want a more exotic solution, have you considered making ~/.bash_history a named pipe and having safecat read from the pipe? And, for the comment from @HackSaw, script may be too noisy. For a simple example, ps -fe is one line with six characters but it produced 887 lines of output on one of my systems. Commented May 9, 2023 at 16:43

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In finding the solution to the missing entries in the bash history file due to having multiple terminals open on this site which i will link when i find it again, but it was to add the following line to the .bashrc file:

export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -n"

So I am thinking that appending a command to the list in green that appends a log file and delivers it via scp to a remote machine with an ssh connection with the local should work if my presumption is true, so the keystrokes can be inferred if indeed a completely synchronous appending process occurs throughout your LAN.

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