How do i scroll in bash using keyboard?

[Sushil Mantri]

Thanks a lot Karl for replying but maybe i did not bring my problem clearly.

I use a gui terminal, and i want to scroll through the scroll back buffer
using keyboard only. <shift> + pgup is painful as i dont use PgUp much.
Also it scrolls the whole page, i want to scroll more like the mouse does,
1 line at a time. Also piping it to other files is not what i am looking
for.

Any ideas?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 22:36 -0500, Sushil Mantri wrote:
> > I have been a little bugged by this. I want to scroll up through the
> > output of last executed command. I dont want to do 'less' or using
> > <shift> + pageup.
>
> Maybe you should tell us how you imagine it working. If you don't put
> the output somewhere where you can read it, then your only option is the
> scroll-back buffer of the terminal window.
>
> For console terminals (i.e., if you are not using a graphical user
> interface) you will probably not be able to use a mouse to scroll up,
> and the shit-pgup method is about all you have. If you are using a
> terminal window in a graphical user interface, then you should be able
> to use the scroll wheel (of the thumb in a scroll bar) to scroll up and
> down in the output of past commands. Depending on the terminal windows
> software you are using you should be able to adjust the size of the
> scroll-back buffer to a size that suits you. I generally set it to a
> very big number.
>
> There are a few options for storing the output from commands. Obviously
> these may be less useful if the output is not text!
>
> The "script" will put an entire session and every keystroke into a file
> for later perusal:
>
>   script
>   command
>   command
>   command...
>   exit
>
> Or just redirect the output from a command into a file and look at it
> when the command has finished ("2>&1" redirects error messages as well):
>
>   command > file.txt 2>&1
>
> Or you can use "tee" to redirect output into a file AND get it into
> less:
>
>   command | tee file.txt | less
>
> Or even into multiple files:
>
>   command | tee file1.txt | tee file2.txt | file3.txt > file4.txt
>
> Or you can watch the output from something as it happens using tail - in
> another window, or the same window if the command is running in the
> background:
>
>   command > file.txt 2>&1 &
>   tail -f file.txt
>
> Note: Command syntax off the top of my head - apply with caution :-)
>
> Regards, K.
>
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