Copying your screen to a file (capture and script commands)

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Use the capture command, which emulates a VT100 terminal, to copy everything printed on your terminal to a file that you specify. Use the script command to copy everything printed on your terminal to a file that you specify, without emulating a VT100 terminal.

Both commands are useful for printing records of terminal dialogs.

For example, to capture the screen of a terminal while emulating a VT100, at the prompt, type the following:

capture screen.01

The system displays information similar to the following:

Capture command is started. The file is screen.01.
Use ^P to dump screen to file screen.01.
You are now emulating a vt100 terminal.
Press Any Key to continue.

After entering data and dumping the screen contents, stop the capture command by pressing Ctrl-D or typing exit and pressing Enter. The system displays information similar to the following:

Capture command is complete. The file is screen.01.
You are NO LONGER emulating a vt100 terminal.

Use the cat command to display the contents of your file.

For example, to capture the screen of a terminal, at the prompt, type the following:

script

The system displays information similar to the following:

Script command is started. The file is typescript.

Everything displayed on the screen is now copied to the typescript file.

To stop the script command, press Ctrl-D or type exit and press Enter. The system displays information similar to the following:

Script command is complete. The file is typescript.

Use the cat command to display the contents of your file.

See the capture and script commands in Commands Reference for the complete syntax.