How to display CLI output on another machine

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

El Domingo, 7 de Enero de 2007 18:09, Nigel Henry escribió:
> I can ssh into my other machine ok, and can edit files, etc, which is no
> problem.
>
> What I would like to do is to have access to what is currently displayed on
> the CLI (Konsole) on machine B. As an example. I run apt-get update, then
> apt-get dist-upgrade on machine B, which runs to completion. The history is
> still on the CLI.  I now need to post the history from the CLI on machine B
> to a mailing list. The email client (Kmail) is on machine A.
>
> Is there a way to display the history that's on the CLI on machine B on
> machine A, so that I can simply highlight the text, then paste it to Kmails
> composer on machine A?
>
> Both machines are next to one another, but at the moment I have to save the
> CLI history on machine B as a text file, ssh into B from A, and use nano to
> display the text file, before I can highlight, and paste the text into
> Kmails composer.
>
> Nigel.

Well, If I didn't misunderstand your scenario, what if you use, for instace >> 
in order to redirect output of machine B and then copy it to machine A? By 
scp or whatever.
That's to say, using your example above: 'apt-get update && apt-get 
dist-upgrade >> foo.txt'

Maybe you could use 'screen -RD', which will allow you to see what happened on 
machine B even if you're not in front of the computer of machine A, or just 
machine A is not turned on.
I supposed you to know how screen works, don't you?

Hope that helps.
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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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