Re: [gentoo-user] Output of "emerge -NDpvu world"

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:18 AM, econti <contiemilio@×××××.it> wrote:

> Hi all
> is it possible to page the output of "emerge -NDpvu world" in a terminal?
> 'emerge -NDpvu world | more' does not work.
>
> emilio
>
> You can run it under "script" and it recrods everything to a file, and look
at the file however you like.

If using less(1) or more(1), I would do it this way
   emerge -NDpvu world 2>&1 | less
under the bash shell.

There are a lot of advantages to less, but perhaps the most important is
that you can scroll backwards if you've gone too far -- you don't have to
start over.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD