On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:06:49PM -0500, Joachim Schipper wrote: > 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.
i'd think it's impossible to find a person today who does not know what screen is... the question was how to capture existing (as in already happened) console output as far as i understand it. cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)