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I often want to read output from the terminal from the beginning but by default I have to scroll back up. This can be laborious when there is a lot of text. Is there anything I can do about this?

Thanks :)

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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Some people are saying to use less or more. But what you really wanna do is dump the output to a text file then less or more the file. You can delete the file later

I always use my desktop for this bc the icons annoy me so I know I'll nuke it later.

But anyway this is better in general bc often you'll forget what the output was or you'll want to reference it somehow

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I only use tmp for scripts not for random crap I do in my term

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

random crap I do in my term

/dev/shm is great for that. :) Automatically cleans up regardless of distribution.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Oh for sure. Anything other than the desktop just feels more offical somehow is the thing