Question Description

I have written a program that outputs a lot of text to the terminal.

I am looking for certain words in the text to see if I have done it right, but simply reading the text is impossible.

Are there any capabilities or commands that can actually enable me to lookup a word in the terminal (like Ctrl + F)?

Ax1

It's Shift + Ctrl + F.

You might want to change the Scrollback value to Unlimited to not lose any lines:

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Ax2

You could pipe the output to a file with > myfile.txt And then search the file with grep.

grep "word" myfile.txt

I usually prefer this approach as you don't need to worry about the terminal buffer size, and you can easily keep output from multiple runs of program.