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I executed commands in the terminal and there are outputs shown in the terminal. I want to select all the screen shown. How to achieve that ?

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Is selecting it with the mouse and copying (Ctrl-Shift-C) not an option? – slhck♦ Nov 14 '11 at 12:05
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There are 2 options,

  1. Either you can copy-paste the selected text using Ctrl + Shift + C and Ctrl + Shift + V in which you have freedom what things to copy OR

  2. Redirect the text to a file using redirection

    program1 >outputfile.txt 2>errorfile.txt

    here, all the stdout will go to outputfile.txt while all the stderr will go to errorfile.txt.

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There's also the buffer. In most terminal emulators I've used, if you copy over some text, you can paste it elsewhere with a click of the scroll wheel. – Rob Nov 14 '11 at 15:30
@Rob: not only in terminals, anywhere. This trick is little known, even by some old time Linux users. – m0skit0 Nov 14 '11 at 17:35
I could've sworn it wasn't working properly in my browser, don't have my netbook with me to check. – Rob Nov 14 '11 at 17:45

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