How to scroll in a terminal using keyboard?
How can I scroll in bash using only the keyboard? If it’s not possible in bash, are there any other shells that support this?
This depends on your terminal emulator, not the shell you are using. I personally use GNU Screen. From the description:
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical
terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.
You can use C-a [ to enter scrollback mode. From here, you can scroll with the keyboard and even copy and paste. The mode can be exited from by using the Esc key.
In most terminals that I known you can use Shift+PageUp and Shift+DownDown for scrolling. Note that some terminals don’t support scrolling, or use a very limited history buffer. In the latter case, you may want to increase the limit, if it is configurable.
As an alternative, use a pager; for example, less.
In “terminal” (not a graphic emulator like gterm),
Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown work.
I use the default terminal in Ubuntu 14 (bash) and to scroll by page it is Shift + PageUp or Shift + PageDown to go up/down a whole page.
Ctrl + Shift + Up or Ctrl + Shift + Down to go up/down by line.
Keyboard: Apple/Mac
Terminal/Emu: OSX Terminal
Shell: bash
fn + up_arrow: page up fn + down_arrow: page down cmd + up_arrow: line up cmd + down_arrow: line down
If you use VirtureBoxVM on Mac OS, press SHIFT + fn + up_arrow ( or down_arrow) to roll.
On FreeBSD, you can use Scroll Lock to toggle screen scrolling mode. Press it once, then use Up/Down, PgUp/PgDown, Home/End to scroll. Press it again to jump back down and resume typing.
There is an another way to show everything in terminal organized write to the last to any command ” | less ” and by clicking SPACE BUTTON you can scroll down an up.
Examples
ps aux-
ps aux | less -
ps fax ps fax | less
Linux on Apple / Mac Keyboard (at least on MacBook Pro)
- Page-up: shift+fn+UpArrow
- Page-down: shift+fn+DownArrow
- Line-up: shift+control+UpArrow
- Line-down: shift+control+DownArrow
- Home: shift+fn+LeftArrow
- End: shift+fn+RightArrow
I access a container via an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS terminal, from a Windows machine.
I needed to use space (when inside a bash session on a Docker container running Linux Ubuntu).
I don’t have PgUp so I use Fn+Shift+UpArrow
Its also depend on your keyboard PageUp/Down and arrow keys layout.
Here is my keyboard layout and I am using Ubuntu.
Answered by @Guzman is working for me.
Page-up: shift+fn+UpArrow
Page-down: shift+fn+DownArrow
Line-up: shift+control+UpArrow
Line-down: shift+control+DownArrow
Home: shift+fn+LeftArrow
End: shift+fn+RightArrow