1. Executable programs or shell commands
SCREENDUMP
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 2002-02-24
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NAME
screendump - dump the contents of a virtual console to stdoutSYNOPSIS
screendump [ N ]DESCRIPTION
The screendump command dumps the contents of virtual console N , (or the current console if N is omitted) to standard out.Just saying
- cat /dev/vcsN
NOTES
For security reasons, screendump uses linux devices "virtual console screen" and "virtual console screen with attributes" to give access for screendump.Ensure these files exist, using
-
cd /dev
for i in 0 1 2 3 ...; do
mknod vcs$i c 7 $i
mknod vcsa$i c 7 `expr 128 + $i`
done
(filling in the ellipses) and give the device files appropriate permissions, or run screendump as root.
SEE ALSO
setterm(1)
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