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SCRIPT(1) General Commands Manual SCRIPT(1) NAME script -- make typescript of terminal session SYNOPSIS script [-aeFfkqrw] [-t time] [file [command ...]] script -p [-deq] [-T fmt] [file] DESCRIPTION The script utility makes a typescript of everything printed on your termi- nal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an interac- tive session as proof of an assignment, as the typescript file can be printed out later with lpr(1). If the argument file is given, script saves all dialogue in file. If no file name is given, the typescript is saved in the file typescript. If the argument command is given, script will run the specified command with an optional argument vector instead of an interactive shell. The following options are available: -a Append the output to file or typescript, retaining the prior con- tents. -d When playing back a session with the -p flag, do not sleep between records when playing back a timestamped session. -e Accepted for compatibility with util-linux script. The child com- mand exit status is always the exit status of script. -F Immediately flush output after each write. This will allow a user to create a named pipe using mkfifo(1) and another user may watch the live session using a utility like cat(1). -f Create file.filemon or typescript.filemon using filemon(4). -k Log keys sent to the program as well as output. -p Play back a session recorded with the -r flag in real time. -q Run in quiet mode, omit the start, stop and command status mes- sages. -r Record a session with input, output, and timestamping. -t time Specify the interval at which the script output file will be flushed to disk, in seconds. A value of 0 causes script to flush after every character I/O event. The default interval is 30 sec- onds. -T fmt Implies -p, but just reports the time-stamp of each output. This is very useful for assessing the timing of events. If fmt does not contain any `%' characters, it indicates the de- fault format: `%n@ %s [%Y-%m-%d %T]%n', which is useful for both tools and humans to read, should be used. Note that time-stamps will only be output when different from the previous one. -w Forward terminal size changes on SIGWINCH. The script ends when the forked shell (or command) exits (a control-D to exit the POSIX shell (sh(1)), and exit, logout or control-D (if ignoreeof is not set) for the C-shell, csh(1)). Certain interactive commands, such as vi(1), create garbage in the type- script file. The script utility works best with commands that do not ma- nipulate the screen. The results are meant to emulate a hardcopy terminal, not an addressable one. ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables are utilized by script: SCRIPT The SCRIPT environment variable is added to the sub-shell. If SCRIPT already existed in the users environment, its value is over- written within the sub-shell. The value of SCRIPT is the name of the typescript file. SHELL If the variable SHELL exists, the shell forked by script will be that shell. If SHELL is not set, the POSIX shell is assumed. (Most shells set this variable automatically). EXAMPLES Record a simple csh(1) session with no additional details like input, out- put, and timestamping: $ SHELL=/bin/csh script Script started, output file is typescript % date Tue Jan 5 15:08:10 UTC 2021 % exit exit Script done, output file is typescript Now, replay the session recorded in the previous example: $ cat ./typescript Script started on Tue Jan 5 15:08:08 2021 % date Tue Jan 5 15:08:10 UTC 2021 % exit exit Script done on Tue Jan 5 15:08:13 2021 Record a csh(1) session, but this time with additional details like time- stamping: $ SHELL=/bin/csh script -r Script started, output file is typescript % date Tue Jan 5 15:17:11 UTC 2021 % exit exit Script done, output file is typescript In order to replay a sessions recorded with the -r flag, it is necessary to specify -p (cat(1) will not work because of all the aditional information stored in the session file). Also, let us use -d to print the whole ses- sion at once: $ script -dp ./typescript Script started on Tue Jan 5 15:17:09 2021 % date Tue Jan 5 15:17:11 UTC 2021 % exit exit Script done on Tue Jan 5 15:17:14 2021 SEE ALSO csh(1) (for the history mechanism), filemon(4) HISTORY The script command appeared in 3.0BSD. The -d, -p and -r options first appeared in NetBSD 2.0 and were ported to FreeBSD 9.2. BUGS The script utility places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces. This is not what the naive user expects. It is not possible to specify a command without also naming the script file because of argument parsing compatibility issues. When running in -k mode, echo cancelling is far from ideal. The slave ter- minal mode is checked for ECHO mode to check when to avoid manual echo log- ging. This does not work when the terminal is in a raw mode where the pro- gram being run is doing manual echo. If script reads zero bytes from the terminal, it switches to a mode when it only attempts to read once a second until there is data to read. This pre- vents script from spinning on zero-byte reads, but might cause a 1-second delay in processing of user input. FreeBSD ports 15.1 October 26, 2022 SCRIPT(1)
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