Copying the GNU screen scrollback buffer to a file (extended hardcopy)

Question

How do I easily copy the GNU Screen scrollback buffer to a file? I.e., a more powerful version of the \'hardcopy\' command?

In GNU screen, I can use \"Ctrl

Answer 1

To write the entire contents of the scrollback buffer to a file, type

Ctrl + A and : to get to command mode, then

hardcopy -h 

In older versions of screen, if you just do hardcopy -h, it just writes to the file -h. This was fixed in version 4.2.0, so hardcopy -h writes to hardcopy.N where N is the current window number.