Re: [orca-list] Copying terminal output with Orca

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

command 2>&1 | tee output.txt
may work better since unlike script tee adds no extra ansi codes to your
output.


On Wed, 29 Jun 2022, Willem van der Walt wrote:

> Good day Hendrik,
> Firstly, most linuxes has tty1 to tty6 set up as console terminals, so you can
> press control-alt-f1 to get to the old terminal for which you will then use a
> screen reader like speakup.
> Capturing output from any terminal, graphical or not, can be done by using the
> script command.
> script output.txt
> some commands here
> exit
> will be followed by end script and your output will be in output.txt.
> For just one command you can obviously just use redirection, e.g.
> ls > files.txt
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2022, Hendrik Steyn via orca-list wrote:
>
> > Good afternoon, list
> >
> >
> > Wayback when linux only had a CLI, Speakup was able to mark, copy and paste
> > text from the terminal output. Now that I'm back on Linux for good, I find
> > myself using the terminal for everything (almost everything), but is it
> > possible to capture output from commands in the terminal? I'm using the
> > gnome terminal if it makes a difference. I checked the manual, but I
> > couldn't find any reference to this functionality. I would love to keep
> > using the terminal so any help would be appreciated, please.
> >
> >
> > Hendrik
> >
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