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Bruce Lin
Bruce Lin

Reputation: 2740

linux screen see previous lines

When I run some task using screen there was some error. I want to see the details but can only roll back one page, the previous ones are all black. Is there any way to see the previous lines?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1927

Answers (1)

newfurniturey
newfurniturey

Reputation: 38416

You can configure the scrollback buffer for screen in your .screenrc file:

defscrollback 5000

Will allow 5000 lines to be scrolled.

Also, during startup, you can use -h 5000 to specify the buffer for the current screen session:

screen -h 5000

This method is useful for overriding your default setting for a single use (who quits screen?! =P).

Check out this article for good details - GNU Screen: Working with the Scrollback Buffer

Upvotes: 5

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