Dump a terminal buffer to file

[Joshua Andrews]

Harry Putnam wrote:

>My setup:
>*--
>Software:
>Linux kernel 2.6.7-1.494 Architecture i686
>Fedora Core release 2.90 (FC3 Test 1)
>Hardware:
>model name	: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
>cpu MHz		: 1994.797
>*--
>
>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