How to scroll back in screen within a ssh session from OS X? [closed]
I do the following:
- Open Terminal.app
- Open a ssh session to a remote Linux server
- Open a screen session on the server
- Start a program who breaks with many lines of error reporting…
How can I scroll up to read that?
And no, fixing the program is not a solution for now…
Solution 1:
You can modify .screenrc to allow mouse-based scrollback:
http://slaptijack.com/system-administration/mac-os-x-terminal-and-gnu-screen-scrollback/
Solution 2:
If you did a man screen you can see the options available.
When in screen you can do the following:
CTRL+A (release), [
You can then use the arrows to scroll around the window. To get out of scrolling you can do a CTRL+C.
Solution 3:
Nathan's got it right, though I've always been a fan of Ctrl+A + ESC. ESC is yet another way to get out of copy mode.
It is worth considering, however, that scrollback history has a size limit and if you really want to play it safe, it's generally better to either redirect output to a file (or pipe it to tee if you want screen output as well).
Solution 4:
Besides using the scroll-back buffer in screen, Terminal.app may respond to Shift-Page Up (perhaps Shift-Fn-Up-Arrow on a MacBook).
Another option would be something like:
your_prog 2>&1 | less