oldout 1.0.0

Get the output from previous shell commands, if you use tmux

old-stdout

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Get the old output from shell commands, if you use tmux.

This is vibe-coded but will become less so over time.

Motivation

It is quite natural to want to do thigns with the output of a command that you just run without having to rerun. If you have programmatic access to your shell scrollback, by using tmux this allows you to get output.

Alternatives and prior work

You could collect the outputs of previous commands into files using tee.

You could use something like jupyter which matains history.

Usage

Use tmux.

• oldout will show the output of the previous command.
• oldout 2 shows you the output from the penultimate command (etc).
• outdiff shows the difference between the last two outputs

You can use --command with oldout to include the command.

About me

I am @readwithai. I create tools for reading, research and agency sometimes using the markdown editor Obsidian.

I also create a stream of tools that are related to carrying out my work.

I write about lots of things - including tools like this - on X. My blog is more about reading and research and agency.