log commands

[Jakob Petersen]

Is it possible to log which commands are invoked by a do-file? Interested in the frequencies of commands including user-written in use for different tasks regardless of command name abbreviation. Thanks. Jakob

[Friedrich Huebler]

To do that you would need a list of all commands. How one could obtain such a list was discussed previously on Statalist.

• st: List of ALL Commands
• st: list of all stata commands (getcmds)

[Jakob Petersen]

Thanks - some interesting discussion under ALL Commands. The idea was slightly different - I wondered whether it would be possible to create a log file that only logged whatever commands are invoked by a given do-file? An alternative could be to do some text mining of the do-file as a text file. In that case the aliases offered by the lists in getcmds would be useful (g ge ..... generate, etc.).

[Castor Comploj]

-cmdlog- should do the job.
Info is here: u15.pdf (stata.com)
However, cmdlog does not seem to work.

cmdlog using session
use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r13/census5
tabulate region [freq=pop]
summarize median_age
cmdlog close

[Jeff Pitblado (StataCorp)]

See help for cmdlog.

cmdlog and its subcommands are similar to log but create a command log recording only what you type and can be only plain text. That is, cmdlog is designed only for interactive use. You can have only one command log open at a time.