After a break from using AWS I had reason to reacquaint myself with it again today, and did so via the CLI. The AWS CLI is pretty intuitive and has a good helptext system, but one thing that kept frustrasting me was that after closing the help text, the screen cleared—so I couldn’t copy the syntax out to use in my command!

The same thing happened when I ran a command that returned output - the screen cleared.

Here’s how to fix either, or both, of these