On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 08:33:54PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > anybody know how to capture the contents of a terminal scrollback > buffer? i've got about 1000 lines of debug stuff from a network > problem that I want to save, but its just sitting in the scroll back > buffer of an aterm. argh! how do I get it out of there without > copy/pasting it one screen at a time? > > thanks > > A
thanks to all who responded. I have now successfully copied some 1000 lines of scroll back using the two click method (I didn't realise the right click extended the selection in a terminal) with a cat > output.txt type of solution. yes, I know about screen and its on my list of things to learn... if only that list wasn't as long as my arm :) A
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