On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:53PM EST, Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote: [..]
> say I do an "ls -R /". This command will produce many screens of > output. Using the Shift+PgUp, I can scrollback by a few screens-worth > of lines - but the number of lines I can scrollback is limited. I > would like to increase this. $ ls -R / | less Then I use CTRL+D & CTRL+U to page down/up one half-screen at a time. > I need this to watch the output of some long running make (and > redirecting the output to a file does not work satisfactorily). I have > thought about using screen, but if there is a way to do it natively, > that would work the best. I suggest you take another look at GNU screen.. not so much for its scroll back capabilities but for a dozen other reasons. http://aperiodic.net/screen/ I started using it 2-3 years ago both in X and on the linux console and I never looked back. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
