Is it possible to view screen session output?

Question

I've created a session in screen. It produced some output. Now I want to see it. So I attached the needed session, but could only see output limited by the size of console size. If I scroll up I see previous console commands, not screens output. If I try to navigate using arrows then just arrow keys codes are inserted. Is there any way to get the output of the screen session? Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to use the scroll-back buffer in screen. You can navigate the scroll-back buffer by using Ctrl-a Esc or Ctrl-a [ then you can page up/down with any of these actions:

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Movement

Ctrl-b or Ctrl-f to move back and forth by a page.

Esc will pop you back out of scroll-back navigation.