X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 17:36:59 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7: window cuts off output / saving output Message-ID: <20110202163659.GJ2675@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Feb 2 11:13, Rachel Trent wrote: > I have a seemingly simple problem that I either haven't found the > answer to or I didn't understand the answer when I saw it. I presume > I'm not describing it with the correct terminology... > > Short version: > In layman's terms, the Cygwin window cuts off at the top, and I'd like > to know if the output that's been cut off is forever lost or if I > might be able to save it to a file or view it some other way. > > Long version: > Within a larger script, I copied over a thousand files from one server > to another using the following command: > cp -R -n -p -v "$package" "$destination" | tee -a "$destination"/copiedfiles.txt > > However, several files failed to copy due to permissions issues/etc, > and the copiedfiles.txt file does not include the error information. > The onscreen output does include this information (due to using the -v > verbose option), however I can only scroll up to see about 300 lines > of information (surprise! I wasn't expecting this). My question is: > can I somehow access the output that was cut off? This is not a Cygwin problem. The scrollback buffer is provided by the underying Windows console. You can change that in the console window properties dialog. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple