May 25, 2023 · I figured that this is probably because PuTTY might have an upper limit of how much text can be pasted. My solution to this right now is to copy-paste my script bit by bit, which is quite …

Jun 18, 2013 · Open your PuTTY configuration. Select Window and you will see the option to control the PuTTY windows on the right panel. To increase the scrollback lines, you will need to increase the …

Nov 17, 2024 · Learn how to adjust Putty terminal settings on Windows, including re-wrapping lines and resizing the window. Follow these steps to improve your terminal experience.

Type ls -l / to list the contents of the root directory. Remember -- press Enter to execute a shell command. Let's increase the size of the scroll buffer. Close this session and re-open PuTTY to the …

Dec 24, 2013 · By default, PuTTY does not retain very many lines of scrollback (output) in the terminal window. In order to increase this, go to: Category > Window > Control the scrollback in the window …

When you are working with very large files or trying to display log files putty only keeps a few lines of it in windows buffer for us to scroll back and see. To increase the scrollback buffer size, we can increase …

Aug 31, 2024 · If the command is issued with | tee /dev/null (or simply |tee ) at its end, it causes output lines to wrap, and makes full output visible. Please see “Screenshot 2 of 2” below.

Apr 24, 2025 · A visual cheat sheet for common keyboard shortcuts in the PuTTY terminal emulator, covering navigation, editing, and session control.

The "Lines of scrollback" setting determines how many lines of history your PuTTY terminal will retain. The default is typically 2000 lines, but you can increase this significantly (e.g., to 10000 or more) if …

It is quite easy to exceed 100k lines in a terminal session, particularly if push erased text into scrollback is enabled. Programs like top, less, tail, cat, etc. will chew that up in no time.