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by 9dev 263 days ago
What good is grep if you want to search the build log on your screen that took an hour in the making? Should have thought of tee-ing it, well duh.
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You just rawdog that to stdout without a log file?
I do. Setting up log files for each and every command seems tedious. I would rather just cmd+f to search and have it work for everything, as it is a property of the terminal, rather than a specific command.
Of course. Why not? I can use the terminal's search facility to search its infinite scrollback buffer.
If I don't anticipate problems, or things are slower than I thought? Sure