Question

I recognize that Up/Down will give you the command history. But, how do you look at past output by scrolling up and down?

I have used Shift+Page Up/Page Down, Alt+Shift+Up/Down and Page Up/Page Down but none of these seem to work.

It is a Redhat Linux box.

Stefan

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asked Mar 6, 2013 at 18:23

Jane DohJane Doh

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Answer 1

SHIFT+Page Up and SHIFT+Page Down. If it doesn't work try this and then it should:

Go the terminal program, and make sure
Edit/Profile Preferences/Scrolling/Scrollback/Unlimited
is checked.

The exact location of this option might be somewhere different though, I see that you are using Redhat.

answered Mar 6, 2013 at 18:36

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Answer 2

Shift+Fn+ UP or DOWN on a Macbook will allow you to scroll.

A.D.

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answered Nov 16, 2013 at 14:52

LaurenLauren

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Answer 3

Alternative: you can use the less command.

Type in console:

"your_command" | less

This will allow you to scroll with the up and down arrow keys.

Basically your output has been piped with the less command.

Drew Gaynor

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answered Jan 10, 2014 at 6:18

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Answer 4

ALTERNATIVE FOR LINE-BY-LINE SCROLLING

Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow or Down Arrow

Unlike Shift + Page Up or Page Down, which scrolls the entire page, this will help with a smoother line-by-line scrolling, which is exactly what I was looking for.

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answered Nov 15, 2016 at 6:25

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Answer 5

SHIFT + Page Up and SHIFT + Page Down are the correct keys to operate on the linux (virtual) console, but vmware console doesn't have those terminal settings. The virtual console has fixed scroll back size, it sounds like it's limited to video memory size according to this Linux virtual console Scrolling behavior documentation.

answered Mar 8, 2013 at 14:04

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Answer 6

Another alternative, that might be already installed on your system is to use GNU screen :

# This starts screen which adds basic window management in terminals
screen

# This starts the copy mode you can use to scroll
<CTRL-A> [

# Now use the arrows to scroll

# To exit copy mode, do
<ESC>

See man screen for much more useful options (multiple windows, ...)...

answered Dec 8, 2016 at 8:48

Joel.OJoel.O

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Answer 7

Shift Pageup/End works for me.

answered Apr 1, 2019 at 9:56

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Answer 8

It seems as though this is not easily possible: The Arch Linux Wiki lists no way to do this on the console (while easily possible on the virtual terminal).

You could use tmux scrolling:

Ctrl-b then [ then you can use your normal navigation keys to scroll around (eg. Up Arrow or PgDn). Press q to quit scroll mode.

Alternatively you can press Ctrl-b PgUp to go directly into copy mode and scroll one page up (which is what it sounds like you will want most of the time)

answered Feb 10, 2016 at 11:11

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Answer 9

VM Ubuntu on a Mac...fn + shift + up/down arrows

answered Oct 4, 2017 at 3:21

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Answer 10

I ran into the same problem with VMWare workstation with Ubuntu guest, turns out VmWare doesn't support scrolling back up from the server view. What I did was to install x GUI, then run xterm from there. For some reason it runs the same, but lets you scroll the normal ways. Hope this helps future readers in VmWare virtual boxes.

answered Jul 18, 2016 at 7:42

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