How would I ‘attach’ a console/terminal-view to an applications output so I can see what it may be saying?
How would I detach from an applications output without killing the application?
Normally if you fire up a talkative application using the command line you get to see all kinds of wonderful output. However, let’s say I have a particularly chatty programming running, like KINO, and I want to view its output at any given moment without restarting it through the command line. I cannot; at least I don’t know how.
There are a few options here. One is to redirect the output of the command to a file, and then use ‘tail’ to view new lines that are added to that file in real time.
Another option is to launch your program inside of ‘screen’, which is a sort-of text-based Terminal application. Screen sessions can be attached and detached, but are nominally meant only to be used by the same user, so if you want to share them between users, it’s a big pain in the ass.