Terminal commands for debugging and troubleshooting

Authors: Martina Contisciani^1,2
Affiliations: ¹Inverse Complexity Lab, ²Central European University
License: CC-BY

This document contains useful terminal commands for debugging and troubleshooting.

Making compilation output more readable¶

When we run make, we might get a lot of output, including warnings and errors. To make it easier to read, scroll through, and search, we can use this command:

make 2>&1 | less

The option 2>&1 combines the error messages with the regular output, while | less lets us scroll through everything interactively. This also allows us to search within the output — for example, for “error” or “warning”. Note that to jump to the next match, we need to press n.