Question

I have this python script that outputs the Twitter Stream to my terminal console. Now here is the interesting thing:
* On snowleopard I get all the data I want.
* On Ubuntu (my pc) this data is limited and older data is deleted.

Both terminal consoles operate in Bash, so it has to be an OS thing presumably.

My question is: how do I turn this off? I want to leave my computer on for a week to capture around 1 or 2 gigabytes of data, for my bachelor thesis!

Answer 1

Redirect the output to file using > or >>.
say

$ cmd > filename.txt

that will put all the content in the filename.txt, also you can redirect the errors using 2>error.txt.

Edit -> profile preference -> Scrolling -> check on unlimited

just in case if you want it to on the console.
But i will recommend using file redirection and process the file later.