On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:52:05 -0400 (EDT), Alois Mahdal wrote: > > I wonder if there's a simple and universal way to dump output > of terminal to a file, particularly for demonstration purposes. > > Most of the time when I need to do that, I either use X (or > PuTTY, when on Windows) facilities, but often it's not possible, > or it may become awkward (due to need to switch between mouse > and keyboard). > > I know there are things like 'screen', but I'm looking for > the most universal solution that would work on every system. > > For example, on SUSE, I can: > > cat /dev/vcs > example.txt > > (...though it's catted as a single line with *all* spaces up > to $COLS (meaning, e.g. that each--even empty--line would appear > as $COLS 0x020-spaces), so it needs some post-processing.) > > ...but that didn't work on Debian/Lenny for me. > > Any suggestions? > > (Extra bonus points for linux-osx-freebsd-unicode-compatible > version. :-D)
Well, for recording a shell session, there is "script". And to play it back later, there is "scriptreplay". Both tools are from package bsdutils, which is a required package and is marked essential in Debian. I don't know if that's what you want, though. script puts *everything* in the capture file, including linefeeds, backspaces, ANSI escape sequences, etc. For example, colorized output from "ls" results in ANSI escape sequences. Commands which produce full-screen output, such as ncurses-based applications, vi, etc. result in lots of "garbage" output. It works best when running commands which produce pure line-mode output. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1733371526.691349.1283967330309.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
