When you scroll up, say to see a log, the first portion of it will not be visible since the terminal only supports a limited no. of lines. So if you want to scroll up and be able to see everything, at least a few pages up, how do you do it?
+1
A:
Try using the screen command, and set its scrollback buffer to a larger size.
screen has many other benefits and wonderful features.
If all you're doing is looking at a log, you could alternately use a pager such as less
Borealid
2010-07-08 04:14:24
My impression of the original post was that the scrolling you're describing didn't go far enough. Which it usually doesn't, in my experience.
Borealid
2010-07-08 04:17:06
A:
An alternative to screen is using tee to copy all output to a file while still printing it on the terminal:
yourcommand | tee output.txt
tobiw
2010-07-08 04:16:07
A:
Some tricks I use-
some terminal applications (gnome-terminal) allow you to increase the scroll-back buffer size
pipe output to a file:
command > file.log
pipe your command to less:
command | less
tail log and pipe to grep to reduce output
tail -f example.log | grep 'search text'
+1
A:
If you are using gnome-term (the default), then you can change your settings. Either set the no. of lines to unlimited, or to a much larger buffer size than the default.
zdav
2010-07-08 04:24:47
A:
piping the output to a pager like the following is the better choice.
command | less
command | more
thegeek
2010-07-08 06:01:09