Mac OS X Terminal tip: Increase the scroll buffer

Hi all,

 

in Mac OS X nearly everything can be done in the graphical environment – which is cool. But there are other possibilities to this. As under the hood, Mac OS X is still a BSD System (that is actually the reason it works as opposed to Windows), you can also use the console. 

 

Albeit being happy to have it, there is a glitch to the Mac OS X Console (or Terminal.app as it is called). You can only scrollback 10000 line, or so. This might sound like plenty of room, but if you are a console junkie like me, sometimes this is just too less.

 

Now there is a simple solution to the problem: increase the scrollback value or make it unlimited – this is how you do it:

 

 

1. Open the Terminal (you can find it in the Utilities folder)
2. Hit Command-I
3. Choose the Buffer-entry from the drop down menu
4. Set the desired buffer limit

 

That’s it. 

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