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Asked: 2012-05-14 23:59:33 +0800 CST

How can I see a history of the terminal output, not just commands entered?

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I'm trying to do some debugging in Android and I am running a live logcat in the Terminal, but the problem is that there is too much information generated so that when I am finished and try to copy all the information received by choosing "Select All" and then "Copy" a lot of the early output which is produced isn't copied. I was aware of history, but that just provides a list of commands that have previously been entered, not the output.

Can I see a history of all the output that the terminal gives, or perhaps can I have the terminal save as a text file all the output that it is producing?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can append all logs to a text file by redirecting output. But this requires each command is executed like this (this will catch both stdout & stderr)

    command >>file.txt 2>&1

    OR

    You can record screencasts of terminal, since it stores screencast in text file, you can use that. Its called shelr

    Files are stored in ~/.local/share/shelr/

    Source: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/04/how-to-record-and-share-terminal-screencasts-quickly/

    Note: I have no idea of android development.This answer is based on shell scripting.

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  2. I had the same problem the other day, and I found this solution: http://sites.google.com/site/androidhowto/how-to-1/save-logcat-to-a-text-file

    Maybe it's not the best thing you could do I think this is what you were asking for.

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