In Tera Term (Terminal emulator), I was viewing log files real-time. I used the command "tail -f ". My question is ...
When I saw a log line I want to read, I would like to pause the terminal output for a while without stopping the "tail" process.
I heard there's a way to do that in tera term. But I cannot find out how to do.
Can anyone tell me? Thanks in advance.
Usually your terminal is configured to honor XON/XOFF, as controlQ and controlS, e.g.,
$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 40; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel -iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke
While originally a hardware feature, this is more often emulated in software. By pressing controlS, you tell the computer to stop sending characters to the terminal, and pressing controlQ to resume.
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