At times when using the terminal, the output from a command can be so long, you simply can’t scroll to the beginning, as it is no longer in view. But you can actually set the terminal to display as many lines as you like, or even set it to unlimited scrolling.
In the terminal, go to Edit > Profile Preferences, and in the Scrolling tab you will see there is a default amount of lines to be displayed (probably something like 512). If you have an older computer and are worried about memory, you can up the amount to 2000 or thereabouts, as that should suffice, otherwise the best option is to place no limit on the amount of lines displayed. Under that, you will see “Unlimited“, so check that, and from the next command onwards you won’t have that limitation any more.
Various terminals available might differ as to where to change that setting (like a Settings menu, or Edit > Preferences or Tools > Settings), but they all should have it, and you should find it easy enough.
im no genius in terminal, but i think we can just use |less and |more accordingly to display more data and less data, im not sure what will happen if some one is running a program
Yeah, but why would you bother doing that each time, and face the level of uncertainty you admit, when you can just change the terminal setting? Each to their own, but this one seems a no-brainer to me.
Less does allow *searching*, which can be immensely convenient.
Not that there’s anything wrong with unlimited scrolling.
Great site, BTW, I’ve learned a pile of useful tricks. Thanks!
Oh, and the Thunderbird notification app from the other site doesn’t (yet?) support Thunderbird 7, unfortunately.
Great job!