How to see all output of command in terminal

pilotgi · 06-27-2007, 08:34 PM

Can someone tell me how to look at the beginning of the output from a command in the terminal? Whenever a command generates a lot of text, I can only scroll back part of the way in the terminal.

Example: Using the command hwinfo --all I get 79 entries but I can only scroll back to number 22. How do I get to the beginning?

gilead · 06-27-2007, 08:38 PM

The easiest way would probably be to pipe the output to a pager (more, less, most) and scroll through it screen by screen. For example:

Code:

/path/to/some/command | less

You could also redirect the output to a file and look at it with your text editor:

Code:

/path/to/some/command > /path/to/some/output.log

You can probably edit the buffer size for your terminal as well - but I don't remember what is required for that...

pilotgi · 06-27-2007, 09:03 PM

OK, Thanks.