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[borgward]

How do I save or print or print to file message from tty1? I am looking at messages because install will not boot. I ran commands from tty1 to find out why. Some messages are very long, up to several hundred pages, too many to write by hand.

[jimallyn]

You can redirect the messages to a file. For example, if I wanted to have the output of inxi -S saved to the hard drive, I would use inxi -S > inxitest.txt. That would write the output of the command to a text file named inxitest.txt. If I wanted to view that file from the command line, I would use cat inxitest.txt. If there was too much stuff and it scrolled by too quickly, I would use cat inxitest.txt | less. That allows you to page up and down in the file, then hit q to exit. To print the file, use lpr inxitest.txt. The same stuff can be used with pretty much any command.

[AndyMH]

You can also use tee to send output to a file and still have it display on a terminal:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/418 ... and-stdout

[jimallyn]

You can also use tee to send output to a file and still have it display on a terminal

Cool. I had heard of tee before, but never used it. One of the things I like about Linux is there are multiple ways to do just about anything.