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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" @(#)script.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 29.\" $FreeBSD: head/usr.bin/script/script.1 314436 2017-02-28 23:42:47Z imp $ 30.\" 31.Dd November 25, 2018 32.Dt SCRIPT 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm script 36.Nd make typescript of terminal session 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl adkpqr 40.Op Fl F Ar pipe 41.Op Fl t Ar time 42.Op Ar file Op Ar command ... 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. 47It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an interactive 48session as proof of an assignment, as the typescript file 49can be printed out later with 50.Xr lpr 1 . 51.Pp 52If the argument 53.Ar file 54is given, 55.Nm 56saves all dialogue in 57.Ar file . 58If no file name is given, the typescript is saved in the file 59.Pa typescript . 60.Pp 61If the argument 62.Ar command 63is given, 64.Nm 65will run the specified command with an optional argument vector 66instead of an interactive shell. 67.Pp 68The following options are available: 69.Bl -tag -width indent 70.It Fl a 71Append the output to 72.Ar file 73or 74.Pa typescript , 75retaining the prior contents. 76.It Fl d 77When playing back a session with the 78.Fl p 79flag, do not sleep between records when playing back a timestamped session. 80.It Fl F Ar pipe 81Immediately flush output after each write. 82This will allow a user to create a named pipe using 83.Xr mkfifo 1 84and another user may watch the live session using a utility like 85.Xr cat 1 . 86.It Fl k 87Log keys sent to the program as well as output. 88.It Fl p 89Play back a session recorded with the 90.Fl r 91flag in real time. 92.It Fl q 93Run in quiet mode, omit the start, stop and command status messages. 94.It Fl r 95Record a session with input, output, and timestamping. 96.It Fl t Ar time 97Specify the interval at which the script output file will be flushed 98to disk, in seconds. 99A value of 0 100causes 101.Nm 102to flush after every character I/O event. 103The default interval is 10430 seconds. 105.El 106.Pp 107The script ends when the forked shell (or command) exits (a 108.Em control-D 109to exit 110the Bourne shell 111.Pf ( Xr sh 1 ) , 112and 113.Em exit , 114.Em logout 115or 116.Em control-D 117(if 118.Em ignoreeof 119is not set) for the 120C-shell, 121.Xr csh 1 ) . 122.Pp 123Certain interactive commands, such as 124.Xr vi 1 , 125create garbage in the typescript file. 126The 127.Nm 128utility works best with commands that do not manipulate the screen. 129The results are meant to emulate a hardcopy terminal, not an addressable one. 130.Sh ENVIRONMENT 131The following environment variables are utilized by 132.Nm : 133.Bl -tag -width SHELL 134.It Ev SCRIPT 135The 136.Ev SCRIPT 137environment variable is added to the sub-shell. 138If 139.Ev SCRIPT 140already existed in the users environment, 141its value is overwritten within the sub-shell. 142The value of 143.Ev SCRIPT 144is the name of the 145.Ar typescript 146file. 147.It Ev SHELL 148If the variable 149.Ev SHELL 150exists, the shell forked by 151.Nm 152will be that shell. 153If 154.Ev SHELL 155is not set, the Bourne shell 156is assumed. 157.Pq Most shells set this variable automatically . 158.El 159.Sh SEE ALSO 160.Xr csh 1 161.Po 162for the 163.Em history 164mechanism 165.Pc 166.Sh HISTORY 167The 168.Nm 169command appeared in 170.Bx 3.0 . 171.Pp 172The 173.Fl d , 174.Fl p 175and 176.Fl r 177options first appeared in 178.Nx 2.0 179and were ported to 180.Fx 9.2 . 181.Sh BUGS 182The 183.Nm 184utility places 185.Sy everything 186in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces. 187This is not what the naive user expects. 188.Pp 189It is not possible to specify a command without also naming the script file 190because of argument parsing compatibility issues. 191.Pp 192When running in 193.Fl k 194mode, echo cancelling is far from ideal. 195The slave terminal mode is checked 196for ECHO mode to check when to avoid manual echo logging. 197This does not 198work when the terminal is in a raw mode where 199the program being run is doing manual echo. 200.Pp 201If 202.Nm 203reads zero bytes from the terminal, it switches to a mode when it 204only attempts to read 205once a second until there is data to read. 206This prevents 207.Nm 208from spinning on zero-byte reads, but might cause a 1-second delay in 209processing of user input. 210