nixCraft

Hi All:
I am new to linux and unix in general like to know everything about it
one question i ran into today is

i installed ubuntu server and able to remote SSH into its shell
but one thing that bothers me is i am not able to see the full screen of a command output, putty provided some flexibility with a scroll bar,

my question is however, how do i copy/paste the text on the putty console to some other application (ie. notepad in windows as i running this setup in VMware workstation), I noticed there is a "copy all to clipboard" option in putty, but is there a way to select some specific text on the screen rather than all .... not sure if this is a putty question

and how would i save and review my output if i am in a console (on linux machine itself rather than SSH'ed in), i tried to pipe the output into vi but not working all the time.. ie

ifconfig -a | vi ifconfig-all.txt



another question, in windows , there is an event viewer, i imagine in linux there various ways to get to various system event and logs, where do i start ?


thanks
J

For copying text from putty .
You need to select the text in putty open your notepad and just right click on notepad and paste.
selecting text in putty puts the text in clip board.
while copying text back to putty copy the text from notepad CTRL+C
and than right click where u want to copy text on putty.

For saving log file | wont help
this might help you
ifconfig > file.txt