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Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file



On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST)
brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown) wrote:

> When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls
> past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug
> the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just
> scrolls quickly by in the terminal:
> 
>   For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
>   Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
>   If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
>   developer mailing list <gphoto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, please run
>   gphoto2 as follows:
> 
>     env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --debug --debug -f "/opt/tmp/camera" -P
> 
>   Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
> 
> I vaguely recall there is a utility to capture input to the terminal
> to file.
> 

If you're using bash as a shell (and probably others too)

command > /file/to/direct/output.to

or if you want stderr to go to the file as well:

command 2>&1 > /file/to/direct/output.to

HTH

-ol

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