Using Screen

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Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes

note

ctrl-a means type control key plus a

Basic

  • To Start a screen with session name
screen -S sessionname
  • To get help screen
ctrl-a ?
  • To Create new windows within screen
ctrl-a + c 
  • To deatach screen type
screen -d 
  • to Attach a running screen which was Detach first
 #if there is onlye one session 
 screen -r 
 screen -r sessionname 
  • To list available screen session
 screen -ls 
 ## to attach to screen 
 screen -r session_name 
  • To Rename window in screen
ctrl+a A 
  • To split the window on one screen
ctrl-a + S
  • To change to split window
ctrl + tab 
  • To kill alll the split and make the current windows active
ctrl-a + Q 


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