[SOLVED] Emerge Comments -Can't ShiftPageUP 2 view previous?

mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

I tried looking around in the forums, but didn't know exactly what wording to use to search for this particular query so sorry if this is a dupe.

When I install many programs at one time, or emerge -avuDN world for instance, after a while the screen history is erased and I can't see what the interaction comments were above.

i.e.
* You need to do this to make this work etc etc..

Is there a way to report on all the comments for your previous emerge?

didymos · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 12:22 am Post subject:

Well, there's a console way, and an xconsole way. On the console, you
can do

mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

So then I guess I could grep that output with *Or maybe because the lines are in a particular colour, grep by certain colours, is that possible?

didymos · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:33 am Post subject:

Well, you can colorize grep. It's pretty limited, basically just highlighting. But grepping the actual color codes? Is that what you mean? I'm sure there's probably some way to do that. You could tell grep to treat the file as binary. Why would you want to though?
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mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

Basically, rather then sift through previous emerges, I just want to make it easy to quickly see, if the program required me to change anything manually.

From what you've given me i've devised this:
e.g.

didymos · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:38 am Post subject:

Yeah. That works.

The thing is, I though you wanted to grep for the control characters for
color, not the colors. I.e. ^[033 instead of the color yellow.

I don't know why I thought that.
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mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

lol nah was just thinking of a different way to grep the comments but * seems to work fine!

No idea on how to automatically capture the output to a filename with the date inside it?

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Read this thread.

mortar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 131

Awesome program! Exactly what I needed!!

Thanks guys!!

Quick summary.

curtis119 · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads.

By request of Original Poster in favor of this thread.
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