# LibTmux::Server::capture_pane

- **Module:** LibTmux
- **Package:** LibTmux
- **Language:** Perl
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-perl/blob/352715a4fa66a96eed7763b90daaa536aa2f121d/packages/core/lib/LibTmux/Server.pm#L1058
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/perl/latest/reference/libtmux-server-capture_pane/

```
sub capture_pane($self, %args)
```

`capture_pane(pane => Pane|pane_id, start => integer?, end => integer?)`.

Read a [`LibTmux::Pane`](/en/perl/latest/reference/libtmux-pane/) and return raw terminal octets, including tmux's final newline. Optional start/end select native history rows; no UTF-8 replacement is performed. This I/O reads current observed content without waiting for application work. Command/transport failures propagate through [`LibTmux::X`](/en/perl/latest/reference/libtmux-x/).


```perl
    my $bytes = $server->capture_pane(pane => $pane, start => -20);
```

## Methods

## Parameters

- `args`

## tmux command

The tmux commands behind `capture_pane`.

- [`capture-pane`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/capture-pane/)
- [`display-message`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/display-message/) (daemon identity or target preflight)

## tmux C API

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

- [`cmd_capture_pane_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_capture_pane_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_capture_pane_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-capture-pane-c-cmd_capture_pane_exec/) (function)
- [`cmd_display_message_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_display_message_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_display_message_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-display-message-c-cmd_display_message_exec/) (function)

## In other ports

Read a pane’s visible contents

| Language | Equivalent |
| --- | --- |
| Python | [`libtmux.Pane.capture_pane`](/en/py/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-capture_pane/) (method) |
| Ruby | [`LibTmux::Pane#capture`](/en/ruby/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Lua | [`libtmux.Pane:capture`](/en/lua/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Erlang | [`tmux_pane:capture/2`](/en/erlang/latest/reference/tmux_pane-capture-2/) (function) |
| Haskell | No public Haskell equivalent is implemented; the current modules expose scalar values and version parsing. |
| TypeScript | [`pane.Pane.capture`](/en/ts/latest/reference/pane-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Rust | [`pane.Pane.capture`](/en/rs/latest/reference/pane-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Go | [`tmux.Pane.Capture`](/en/go/latest/reference/tmux-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Java | [`io.github.libtmux.Pane.capture`](/en/java/latest/reference/io-github-libtmux-pane-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Clojure | [`libtmux.core/capture!`](/en/clojure/latest/reference/libtmux-core-capture/) (function) |
| Kotlin | [`io.github.libtmux.kotlin.Pane.capture`](/en/kotlin/latest/reference/io-github-libtmux-kotlin-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Scala | [`io.github.libtmux.scaladsl.Pane.capture`](/en/scala/latest/reference/io-github-libtmux-scaladsl-pane-capture/) (method) |
| C# | [`LibTmux.Pane.CaptureAsync`](/en/csharp/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-captureasync/) (method) |
| F# | [`LibTmux.FSharp.Pane.capture`](/en/fsharp/latest/reference/libtmux-fsharp-pane-capture/) (function) |
| C++ | [`libtmux::Pane::capture`](/en/cxx/latest/reference/libtmux-pane-capture/) (method) |
| Swift | [`Server.capture(_:includingHistory:)`](/en/swift/latest/reference/server-capture(_-includinghistory-)/) (method) |
| OCaml | [`Libtmux_unix.Client.capture_text`](/en/ocaml/latest/reference/libtmux_unix-client-capture_text/) (function) |

No equivalent is recorded in PowerShell, Julia, Elixir or Common Lisp.