Output window
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The Output window appears at the bottom of IDA's interface by default and serves two key purposes:
Displays various IDA messages and notifications.
Provides a command line interface (CLI) for executing IDC or IDAPython commands.
If closed, you can reopen it via Windows -> Output window.
Right-click in the Output window to access these options:
Select All: Selects all content in the window
Find/Find next: Searches for a specific string
Clear: Removes all previous messages from the window
Copy to CLI: Places selected text into CLI field
Save to file: Exports window content to a .log file
Show timestamps: Displays time information with each message
Font...: Customizes the text appearance (font, style, size)
You can duplicate all messages appearing in this window to a file. To do this, you have to define an environment variable before starting IDA: