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Increase scrollback buffer of GNU screen
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The default setting is 100.

3 ways to set scrollback buffer:

From the .screenrc file

Edit ~/.screenrc:

defscrollback [num]

Same as the scrollback command except that the default setting for new windows is changed. Initial setting is 100.

From the command line when you start screen

-h [num]

Specifies the history scrollback buffer to be num lines high.

From within screen

using the Ctrl+a : command:

scrollback [num]

Set the size of the scrollback buffer for the current windows to num lines. The default scrollback is 100 lines.

To view the scrollback buffer value of current session, use Ctrl+a Esc command.

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