Re: How to log while launching screen

[Michael Parson]

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using screen as serial console terminal. The command I've used is
>
> /usr/bin/screen -h 65536 /dev/cu.usbserial-00002026C 115200
>
> It works fine, but I want to capture all I've typed and outputs from it into 
> a file.
>
> It looks -L or -l option would make it, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
>
> I'm a learning user for unix/linux as well, so if you instruct me how I could 
> capture the outputs (especially, automatically) from screen it, it would be 
> appreciated. Actually, I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.

In your .screenrc


# begin
screen 0
        log
# end

Now, when you start screen, screen 0 will get logged to $HOME/screenlog.0


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