Re: [orca-list] copying text in a terminal to a file

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

You can accomplish this in many ways.  One of my favorites is just 
redirecting the output to a file.  For example, assume 'some_app' is the 
command you are running.  The following will redirect all output of the 
command the file 'out.txt' (you can also look at the 'tee' command to 
allow you to get the output sent both to a file and to the terminal):

some_app > out.txt 2>&1

Another favorite is to use the 'script' command.  You first type 
'script', then you run your application.  When your application is done 
running, you press Ctrl+D to exit the script session.  When you do that, 
a file named 'typescript' is created that contains all the output.

Hope this helps,

Will

michael weaver wrote:
> if i am still having poblems as regards things like errors
> running speech-dispatcher, how do i copy text from a terminal
> into a file?
> i know when i last looked at doing something like this as i was
> doing a very painfully slow way of trying to copy out error
> messages before, i did ask on one of the combuntu lists if there
> was a way of doing it but i was told on this list that it could
> only be done visually.
> i don't think you can do controla a to select the text and go to
> edit menu and do a control c to copy the text.  i don't know if
> the menus have changed in gutsy to enable a speech user to do
> this.
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