Copy or Export Byobu screen?
- by kmassada
One of the best things about byobu is the scrollback feature in a given session.
I have been working on something, and I have tons of lines in the current scrollback session and I want to copy everything to a file, how to??
According to the screen home page, looks like you can do this? but when I'm done I do a search for all those files, can't find them.
C-a h (hardcopy) Write a hardcopy of the current window to the
file "hardcopy.n".
C-a H (log) Begins/ends logging of the current window to
the file "screenlog.n".
For the screen commands to work, I have to be in screen mode, I believe, and not sure how to check that?
kenneth@dv7:~$ ps -ef | grep byobu
kenneth 16245 16173 0 05:18 pts/12 00:00:00 grep --color=auto byobu
kenneth 25935 1 0 Dec14 ? 00:21:26 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal -x byobu-launcher
kenneth 25938 25935 0 Dec14 pts/0 00:00:00 tmux -2 -f /usr/share/byobu/profiles/tmuxrc new-session /usr/bin/byobu-shell
kenneth 25962 1 1 Dec14 ? 00:37:31 tmux -2 -f /usr/share/byobu/profiles/tmuxrc new-session /usr/bin/byobu-shell
kenneth 25963 25962 0 Dec14 pts/1 00:00:00 sh -c /usr/bin/byobu-shell
This is from the byoby man page and I absolutely don't know what it does? I tried, it, and looked around, can't tell.
Ctrl-a ~ - Save the current window's scrollback buffer
there's also enter, copy mode, select with space key, and press enter to copy, I do that, the screen displays gibberish for 10 seconds refreshes, done.
cat >> ~/log.output << COMM
--paste using ctrl a ] I think--
COMM
this confirms the copy paste works, but when I press enter, nothing get saved to that log file, I've checked, I do have write privileges in my home directory. lol
the select all, from the xfce4-terminal doesn't go far enough, and scrolling back with the mouse, well won't work, no need to try it, I know byobu buffer doesn't work like that.
