Manual: screendump

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NAME
       screendump - dump the contents of a virtual console to stdout

SYNOPSIS
       screendump [options] [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
       has a similar effect.

OPTIONS
       -V, --version
	      print version number.

       -h, --help
	      print this usage message.

NOTES
       For security reasons, screendump uses linux devices "virtual console screen" and "virtual console screen with attrib‐
       utes" 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.

AUTHORS
       Andries Brouwer  Manpage by Alastair McKinstry 

SEE ALSO
       setterm(1)

kbd							 2002-02-24					       SCREENDUMP(1)