Joshua Andrews <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>I think I once a knew a command or series of commands that would dump >>the scroll_back buffer of an xterm to STDOUT. >> >>Any one here know how that is done? >> >> >> >> > It seems that you should be able to do that but I can't think of it. > > You can always run your terminal session with script, for example; > script ~/session-name.txt > When you exit out of script everything will be written in session-name.txt Thanks I'm aware of `script' But here the question is how to dump a buffer, not how to log a session. `script' adds another layer between user and shell, in effect it is a new shell. Plus the saved log is full of junk that has to be removed to make sense of it.
