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Nov 25, 2018 at 13:26 comment added kasperd @WeijunZhou /dev/vcs devices don't contain information about the size of the screen, so cat /dev/vcsN only works if your terminal window has the same number of characters across as the VC you are capturing.
Nov 25, 2018 at 13:25 comment added kasperd Nice. Is there a way to get it to do colour as well? (screendump reads from /dev/vcsa devices which does have colour information, but it seems to be stripped from the output.) Btw. I like to combine it with the watch command to see live output like watch -n0.1 screendump.
Nov 24, 2018 at 17:04 vote accept neverMind9
Nov 25, 2018 at 10:27
Nov 24, 2018 at 16:46 comment added RudiC Try it and see.
Nov 24, 2018 at 16:45 comment added Weijun Zhou "Just saying cat /dev/vcsN has a similar effect". Then why not just use cat /dev/vcsN?
Nov 24, 2018 at 16:39 history answered RudiC CC BY-SA 4.0