On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:37:47PM +0200, rancor wrote: > Hi > > Is there any way of copy/pipe the information on the console to a file? I > need the same information that I can see of I hold down Ctrl+Shift and using > PageUp/Down when I'm on the console. I'm not using serial, that would be > simple but I'm stuck right on the machine.
While Mickey's solution is rather cool, misc/screen would allow you to copy text off the screen (Ctrl-A [, select. Ctrl-A ]). It also has a lot of other useful commands. Of course, screen isn't found everywhere, while dd pretty much is. Joachim -- TFMotD: term (7) - conventions for naming terminal types