[Gllug] Capturing telnet session

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Tue Sep 18 13:23:28 UTC 2001


On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 02:11:42PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> I need to capture the results of a telnet session to a file,
> to download the configuration of some networking gear for
> a tech support call.
> 
> Does anyone have good tips for how to do this?
> (If it is a built-in option in telnet I will cry)

The script program is your friend:
	$ script
	$ telnet xxxxx
	 .....
	 quit the telnet session
	$ ^d		-- leave script
	$ less typescript

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Alain Williams

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