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.