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I am going screen logs of devstack with following command. screen -x stack I find searching in screens very difficult. Currently I start copy mode with Ctrl A Esc and read all the logs, sometimes it is very irritating to go through all logs while searching for a single word.
Is there a good way for searching a word in screens?
from man screen I found
Searching: / Vi-like search forward. ? Vi-like search backward. C-a s Emacs style incremental search forward. C-r Emacs style reverse i-search. but screens do not support vi-like forward search.
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Grep is a Linux / Unix command-line tool used to search for a string of characters in a specified file. The text search pattern is called a regular expression. When it finds a match, it prints the line with the result. The grep command is handy when searching through large log files.
5 Answers. It's Shift + Ctrl + F . Now, you can press the arrow keys to go up,down, left and right (usually you only use the first two). You can also type /word so search for a word (or a regex) after the cursor.
You can use the find command with -name option followed by the file name that you want to search. You can use the following option if you want to search for a specific file type: f – regular file. d – directory.
Once you are in scrollback mode with Ctrl + A, ESC, you should be able to search backwards through the buffer as described in the manual.
So to search for the word "string", press Ctrl + A, ESC, enter ?string and press Enter. It will take you backwards through the buffer to the word string. Pressing N will go to the next match (backwards) in the buffer.
To search forwards, the cursor should be anywhere but the end of the buffer, then use /string to search down.
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