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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 standard error if
       it is run with the -t parameter.
       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 -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         top

       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 argument 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         top

       % 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

SEE ALSO         top

       script(1)

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2008 James Youngman
       Copyright © 2008 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.

AUTHOR         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⟩.

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

       This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
       utilities) project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.  If you have a
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util-linux                     September 2011                SCRIPTREPLAY(1)

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