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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 2015 11:56:57 -0700
From:      jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports/Packages and release engineering
Message-ID:  <54DF9A79.6070601@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKE2PDtXw4C9mESiYxVWZ2SXfu4ZLk-L4pPxi2gUXHat-6b2XA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/14/2015 11:36 AM, jungle Boogie wrote:
>> >Another small question: I ran something like "pkg install xserver-xorg
>> >digikam vim screen bash" the other day in my FreeBSD test VM.  I
>> >discovered quite a bit of information was printed out at the end from
>> >various packages, which scrolled off the screen.  Is there a way to
>> >re-display all that information?  It seems if it's important enough to
>> >display, it's important enough to display long enough to read;-)
One way to save all that stuff that scrolls off the screen is to run 
the  pkg
command as follows:

script /tmp/pkg.out
pkg install xserver-xorg digikam vim screen bash 2>&1
exit

now you can view /tmp/pkg.out for all the stuff that scrolled off the 
screen.






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