Overview

Use the capture subcommand to save the result of any CLI command as a vector SVG still image.

Basic usage

1. Run console2svg capture -- (command).

   Terminal

   console2svg capture -- console2svg

2. The screen at the end of the executed command is output as output.svg.

   

Main options

The options commonly used for still-image capture are as follows.

• -o <path>: Specify the output file path (default: output.svg).
• -c / --with-command: Add an executed command line such as $ console2svg at the beginning of the output.
• --prompt <text>: Change the command-line prompt symbol (default: $ or #).
• -w <chars>: Specify the terminal width (number of characters).
• -h <lines>: Specify the terminal height (number of lines).
• --timeout <sec>: Automatically stop the command after the specified number of seconds. Use this when capturing commands that do not exit.
• --frame <index>: Output the screen for a specified frame number instead of the screen at command exit.
• --time <sec>: Output the screen at the specified elapsed time.
• --stdout: Write SVG data to standard output instead of a file.

See capture options for details.

Example

Terminal

# Output with executed command, width 100 characters, height 12 lines, and a custom file name
console2svg capture -o console2svg.svg -c -w 100 -h 12 --  dotnet --info