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RE: [LUG] Ssearching previous terminal ouput

I haven't used Konsole in a while, but I think that generally using 
either <shitf>+up arrow, or <ctrl>+up arrow should scroll through 
whatever was put on screen.  Also, doesn't konsole allow you to have 
a 'scrollbar' on the side?  The only advantage that I can see of 
outputing to a text file is to make life easier when using grep to 
find a keyword.

Hope this helps.


On 10-Jun-2002 at 10:45:08 Ian P. Christian wrote:

From: John Horne

An odd subject line I admit! Okay, using redhat 7.0 and KDE, 
I start up a shell/terminal (kconsole). Unzip and untar a 
package and run the configure program. No problem I'm sure 
most of us have done that :-) However, I want to 'search' the 
output displayed in kconsole from the configure program to 
try and find something (a word). I'm sure someone said it 
could be done from a long time ago, but I have no idea how. 
Anyone any ideas?


I personally would do $ ./program > file.txt
Then you can grep that file.

Does that help?


No. Here's the reply I just mailed someone else who suggested the same thing:

  Nope, that's not the question :-) It could be any program, I just happened
  to be running configure at the time. I want to search what is displayed on
  the screen. I *could* redirect it to a file, but it would be far easier to
  search the 'screen'. Saves faffing around with files and then deleting
  them, etc. The question is probably very generic - 'using X11 how can I
  search an xterm's output' may have been better. The fact I am using
  redhat/KDE and was running configure is not important.



John.

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