Generating a character dump for a savefile?

[fruviad]

Is the generation of a character dump only possible as a manual operation within the game via the character display? i.e. "C" -> "f" -> "<File name>"

Is it possible to generate a dump from a savefile at an OS command line? (OS == Linux, in this case)

My goal is to auto-dump the character sheet to a file whenever I start the game so I can track a character's progress across time. I already have a startup script that sets up window positions, so in an ideal world I'd just add another line to that script, dumping the character sheet to some location for archival purposes.

I haven't seen any such functionality, but maybe I'm missing something, or maybe some dev out there has a solution that's part of their personal toolkit but isn't in the distributed code.

[Nick]

It is not currently possible, but it would not be too hard to make possible. I think the correct way would be to have a command line switch - say -o for output - so that

angband -o

would load your default savefile, write the dump to a file, and then quit.