I sometimes pipe a command to less to study it’s output. If it’s interesting enough, I re-run the command and redirect the output to file. This approach has some limitations: the command is run twice, possibly with different output.
Obviously, I should use tee to send the output to both less and the file, but I regularly forget this. That where this hint comes in: you can save the current less-buffer to file!
In short, to save the buffer that is being displayed by a session of `less’, use its pipe-to-shell-command capability by scrolling to the top of the file and press `|’ followed by `$’ as well as entering `tee DESTINATION_FILE’ when prompted for the shell command.
