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| − | To start a new screen, [[open | + | To start a new screen, [[open a console]] and enter: |
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If you loose your connection, you can resume your screen by calling | If you loose your connection, you can resume your screen by calling | ||
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Control-a, H logs your session to a plain-text [[file]] | Control-a, H logs your session to a plain-text [[file]] | ||
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| + | * [http://ss64.com/bash/screen.html screen cheat sheet] | ||
Latest revision as of 09:02, 23 April 2014
Screen is a program that acts as a terminal multiplexer. That means you will be able to
- resume your command line session on another computer even if it was disconnected
- share your keyboard actions with another person on another computer
- log your session to a file
Using Screen
To start a new screen, open a console and enter:
screen
If you loose your connection, you can resume your screen by calling
screen -r
If you want to share a screen session with another user, let him log in as your user and call
screen -x
After calling screen,
Control-a, Control-c creates a new terminal screen
Control-a, " shows a list of terminal screens
Control-a, n switch to the next screen
Control-a, p switch to the previous screen
Control-a, a switches to the most-recently-used screen
Control-a, d kills the actual shell
Control-a, c creates a new shell
Control-a, H logs your session to a plain-text file
