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How do I easily copy the GNU Screen scrollback buffer to a file? I.e., a more powerful version of the ‘hardcopy’ command?
In GNU screen, I can use “Ctrl + A Esc” to enter the scrollback
buffer. I could then mark the entire buffer and use “Ctrl + A Ctrl + ]” to paste it into an Emacs buffer, thus saving it to a file.
However, this is tedious. Is there a Screen command that’ll simply copy the scrollback buffer to a file, like ‘hardcopy’ does for the visible portion of the screen?
To write the entire contents of the scrollback buffer to a file, type
Ctrl + A and :
to get to command mode, then
path: location where you want to save the screen log file.
Example:
In older versions of
screen, if you just dohardcopy -h, it just writes to the file-h. This was fixed in version 4.2.0, sohardcopy -hwrites tohardcopy.NwhereNis the current window number.