scriptreplay(1) - phpMan

SCRIPTREPLAY(1) User Commands SCRIPTREPLAY(1)

NAME
scriptreplay - play back typescripts, using timing information

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

DESCRIPTION
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 be-
ing 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 type-
script may be interpreted differently by the terminal to which scriptreplay is sending its
output.

The timing information is what script(1) outputs to standard error if it is run with the
-t parameter.

By default, the typescript to display is assumed to be named typescript, but other file-
names may be specified, as the second parameter or with option -s.

If the third parameter 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
The first three options will override old-style arguments.

-t, --timing file
File containing script's timing output.

-s, --typescript file
File containing script's terminal output.

-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.

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

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

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

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