Output of last shell command

Question

Not until midway through a 3 hour build script, I\'ll remember that I want to see something at the beginning of the output after it\'s done. At this point I\'ve exceeded th

Answer 1

This could get very messy with certain commands that use cursor addressing. What's the output of your vim session? Or a slightly more sane example: You're downloading a file with wget, and it shows a percentage bar going from 0% to 100%. What's the output of that?

I think you basically want a hardcopy of anything between your current line and the previous prompt. That's not something shell redirection would be a good example for, that's basically something a terminal would do. You could do it manually by copying and pasting in screen, and maybe you could automate it with its exec command. tmux might have something similar, and you can do weird things with the shell mode(s) of Emacs, but that's a rather heavyweight solution. rxvt-unicode has a perl extension…