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I would like to open a new tab in Terminal with custom scrollback history. The primary use-case is to "fork" an existing tab such that both tabs contain the same scrollback history, but more generally I would like to have some custom scripts save and restore Terminal sessions.

I know about the history restore functionality already in Terminal but it doesn't suit my needs; the main one being that I have a system built around the script command and some zsh hooks to save history and output for all terminal sessions for later auditing purposes (recalling changes that I've made).

I would now like to switch to use osascript to save the history and on restoring sessions later to match up the new session with its prior one- in a way, implementing long-term, persistent sessions. I've had Terminal's saved sessions lose their data too many times that I am working around it.

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  • There's no way to detach and reattach screen to suit your needs?
    – da4
    Jan 4, 2013 at 18:47
  • I can’t quite tell if this is brilliant or ridiculous. I wonder if screen and tmux would be better suited to manage shell history buffers?
    – bmike ♦
    Aug 2, 2020 at 8:56

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Perhaps use iterm? http://www.iterm2.com

Its free and should fit your needs?

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    If you wanted to go so far as to state that this will absolutely 100% solve the problem - that would be a fine answer by saying to pick another package, but if there is doubt to whether another software package works, that would be best as a comment and not an answer.
    – bmike ♦
    Jan 7, 2013 at 16:01
  • from what i can ascertain iTerm does NO "restoration" of the scrollback history... which sucks cause it's a nice feature of the otherwise pretty lame Apple Terminal.app
    – alex gray
    Dec 7, 2013 at 0:48

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