scriptreplay(1) — Linux manual page

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SCRIPTREPLAY(1)               User Commands              SCRIPTREPLAY(1)

NAME         top

       scriptreplay - play back typescripts, using timing information

SYNOPSIS         top

       scriptreplay [options] [-t] timingfile [typescript [divisor]]

DESCRIPTION         top

       This program replays a typescript, using timing information to
       ensure that output happens in the same rhythm as it originally
       appeared when the script was recorded.

       The replay simply displays the information again; the programs
       that were run when the typescript was being recorded are not run
       again.  Since the same information is simply being displayed,
       scriptreplay is only guaranteed to work properly if run on the
       same type of terminal the typescript was recorded on.  Otherwise,
       any escape characters in the typescript may be interpreted
       differently by the terminal to which scriptreplay is sending its
       output.

       The timing information is what script(1) outputs to file
       specified by --log-timing.

       By default, the typescript to display is assumed to be named
       typescript, but other filenames may be specified, as the second
       parameter or with option --log-out.

       If the third parameter or --divisor is specified, it is used as a
       speed-up multiplier.  For example, a speed-up of 2 makes
       scriptreplay go twice as fast, and a speed-up of 0.1 makes it go
       ten times slower than the original session.

OPTIONS         top

       -I, --log-in file
              File containing script's terminal input.

       -O, --log-out file
              File containing script's terminal output.

       -B, --log-io file
              File containing script's terminal output and input.

       -t, --timing file
              File containing script's timing output.  This option
              overrides old-style arguments.

       -T, --log-timing file
              This is an alias for -t, maintained for compatibility with
              script(1) command-line options.

       -s, --typescript file
              File containing script's terminal output.  Deprecated
              alias to --log-out.  This option overrides old-style
              arguments.

       -c, --cr-mode mode
              Specifies how to use the CR (0x0D, carriage return)
              character from log files.  The default mode is auto, in
              this case CR is replaced with line break for stdin log,
              because otherwise scriptreplay would overwrite the same
              line.  The other modes are never and always.

       -d, --divisor number
              Speed up the replay displaying this number of times.  The
              argument is a floating-point number.  It's called divisor
              because it divides the timings by this factor.  This
              option overrides old-style arguments.

       -m, --maxdelay number
              Set the maximum delay between updates to number of
              seconds.  The argument is a floating-point number.  This
              can be used to avoid long pauses in the typescript replay.

       --summary
              Display details about the session recorded in the
              specified timing file and exit.  The session has to be
              recorded using advanced format (see script(1)) option
              --logging-format for more details).

       -x, --stream type
              Forces scriptreplay to print only the specified stream.
              The supported stream types are in, out, signal, or info.
              This option is recommended for multi-stream logs (e.g.,
              --log-io) in order to print only specified data.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

EXAMPLES         top

       % script --log-timing file.tm --log-out script.out
       Script started, file is script.out
       % ls
       <etc, etc>
       % exit
       Script done, file is script.out
       % scriptreplay --log-timing file.tm --log-out script.out

AUTHORS         top

       The original scriptreplay program was written by Joey Hess ⟨joey@
       kitenet.net⟩.  The program was re-written in C by James Youngman
       ⟨jay@gnu.org⟩ and Karel Zak ⟨kzak@redhat.com⟩.

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2008 James Youngman
       Copyright © 2008-2019 Karel Zak

       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
       There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
       A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

       Released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

SEE ALSO         top

       script(1), scriptlive(1)

AVAILABILITY         top

       The scriptreplay command is part of the util-linux package and is
       available from Linux Kernel Archive 
       ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.

COLOPHON         top

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