Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:34:28 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Norbert Papke <npapke@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command Message-ID: <20090610113428.GA17212@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200906082313.01084.npapke@acm.org> References: <b6c05a470906082044l69616b2h531adaa1fdf9f0e@mail.gmail.com> <200906082313.01084.npapke@acm.org>
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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:13:00PM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: > > On June 8, 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > Further suppose that after running the command, I decide I want to > > save the output to a text file, so I can analyze the results outside > > of the terminal. What can I do? Well, I can do a traditional > > "copy-and-paste", or I could re-enter the previous command and send it > > to a text file (which I ought to have done in the first place). > > > > But is there another option? Is there some variable (such as, > > hypothetically, $output[n], where n=some integer index) that I could > > use to store the results in a text file? Such an option might look > > like the following: > > You could use sysutils/screen from ports. Screen lets you capture your > session in a log file. If you decide you need the output from a previous > command, it would be trivial to extract from the log. > Nobody's mentioned script(1). Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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