Friday, 1 March 2024

Save existing GNU screen output buffer to a file

 I was working on a node proxy application and used screen to be able to detach my terminal while leaving it running and capturing the output of the application. When I came back, I wanted to save everything and tracked down this bit of wisdom in a comment on a stackoverflow answer:

Ctrl+A and : to get to command mode, then hardcopy -h <filename>

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