feature request: command to copy entire contents of a terminal to stdout

[Timothee Cour]

I'd like to get entire contents of a terminal window to stdout to make it easy to write tools that, say, grep for a string inside it.

* iterm allows to do (on osx ) command A+ command C to copy entire contents to clipboard, which can then be fed to pbpaste to have it in stdout

but that is an ugly hack and affects the clibboard.

* i tried an applescript but it's also ugly / buggy

tell application "iTerm"

set output to contents of last session of current terminal

do shell script "echo " & quoted form of output & "some_file.txt"

end tell

* can the apple script above be modified to at least return to stdout without requiring a file?

* can you provide a terminal command, say retrieve_buffer_contents | grep abcd ?

[Aaron Meurer]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Timothee Cour <timothe...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to get entire contents of a terminal window to stdout to make it easy to write tools that, say, grep for a string inside it.

* iterm allows to do (on osx ) command A+ command C to copy entire contents to clipboard, which can then be fed to pbpaste to have it in stdout

but that is an ugly hack and affects the clibboard.

* i tried an applescript but it's also ugly / buggy

tell application "iTerm"

set output to contents of last session of current terminal

do shell script "echo " & quoted form of output & "some_file.txt"

end tell

* can the apple script above be modified to at least return to stdout without requiring a file?

Does it work to write to the tty file of the terminal you are working in (like /dev/ttys001)?

Aaron Meurer

 

* can you provide a terminal command, say retrieve_buffer_contents | grep abcd ?

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[George Nachman]

You could do this with a coprocess, if I understand correctly what you want to do. Docs here: http://www.iterm2.com/coprocesses.html#/section/home