using -cmdlog- to export commands to .txt file

[Castor Comploj]

Following the Stata guide (u15.pdf (stata.com),
the following code should work:

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

However, it does not in Stata 18. I do not know about earlier versions. Is this a Stata bug?

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Asked and answered here. Please don't hijack other threads to repost your questions. It make it difficult for others to find answers to the same question should they have them, and muddies the other thread being repurposed.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Follow up: I just tried this code and it works fine on Stata 18 (Windows, revision 15nov2023). If you are still having problems, please report the error that Stata is giving you.

[Castor Comploj]

I do not obtain any errors. The file is saved as session.txt, but it is an empty file (Windows, 15 Nov 2023).

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

If you ran -cmdlog- as part of a do-file, then it will not save anything. It's only meant to work during interactive use, meaning you entering commands in the Stata window directly, one at a time.