Tips and Tricks: Saving Device Configs with Mac OS X Terminal

One of the age old techniques to save your device config is to simply issue a "sh run" (or equivalent on non-Cisco devices) and copy and paste the resulting output into a text file.  This method certainly works in the absence of at TFTP server, but it's kind of a pain and when you have a few devices it becomes time consuming in a hurry.

In a Windows environment I use PuTTY.  PuTTY has a built in feature that allows you to save the terminal session you're working on.   At home I have a Mac.  To that end, here's how I save configs if there isn't a TFTP server available.