How do you scroll up down on the console of a Linux VM

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I recognize that Up Down will give you the command history  But  how do you look at past output by scrolling up and down   I have used Shift Page Up Page Down  Alt Shift Up Down and Page Up Page Down but none of these seem to work   It is a Redhat Linux box

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It seems as though this is not easily possible: The Arch Linux Wiki lists no way to do this on the console (while easily possible on the virtual terminal).

You could use tmux scrolling:

Ctrl-b then [ then you can use your normal navigation keys to scroll around (eg. Up Arrow or PgDn). Press q to quit scroll mode.

Alternatively you can press Ctrl-b PgUp to go directly into copy mode and scroll one page up (which is what it sounds like you will want most of the time)

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For some commands  such as mtr    plus  and -  minus  work to scroll up and down

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Shift Fn  UP or DOWN on a Macbook will allow you to scroll

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ALTERNATIVE FOR LINE-BY-LINE SCROLLING  Ctrl   Shift   Up Arrow or Down Arrow  Unlike Shift   Page Up or Page Down  which scrolls the entire page  this will help with a smoother line-by-line scrolling  which is exactly what I was looking for

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Alternative    you can use the less command   Type in console      your command    less      This will allow you to scroll with the up and down arrow keys   Basically your output has been piped with the less command

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Shift Pageup End works for me

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SHIFT   Page Up and SHIFT   Page Down are the correct keys to operate on the linux  virtual  console  but vmware console doesn t have those terminal settings   The virtual console has fixed scroll back size  it sounds like it s limited to video memory size according to this Linux virtual console Scrolling behavior documentation

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Press the Shift key when scrolling the mouse up down works for me when loggin in Ubuntu using Terminal ssh in Yosemite

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VM Ubuntu on a Mac   fn   shift   up down arrows

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I ran into the same problem with VMWare workstation with Ubuntu guest  turns out VmWare doesn t support scrolling back up from the server view  What I did was to install x GUI  then run xterm from there  For some reason it runs the same  but lets you scroll the normal ways  Hope this helps future readers in VmWare virtual boxes

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Another alternative  that might be already installed on your system is to use GNU screen      This starts screen which adds basic window management in terminals screen    This starts the copy mode you can use to scroll  lt CTRL-A gt       Now use the arrows to scroll    To exit copy mode  do  lt ESC gt    See man screen for much more useful options  multiple windows

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In some VPS hostings  like linode  you have to click Ctrl A and then ESC  Exit with double ESC too

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SHIFT Page Up and SHIFT Page Down  If it doesn t work try this and then it should    Go the terminal program  and make sure Edit Profile Preferences Scrolling Scrollback Unlimited is checked   The exact location of this option might be somewhere different though  I see that you are using Redhat

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PERSISTENT  definitive solution  Add this line to your    screenrc  termcapinfo xterm  ti  te       Now you can create a screen  and scroll it up down with your mouse    Like you normally do

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Fn   Up Down can scroll Terminal in Mac OS X 10 11

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