screen is a terminal multiplexer. screen as any other terminal application manages many terminals. But screen differers from other applications with its core features like:
- Remotely attach/detach to your same set of terminals running shells/processes from a different PC in network. (I love this!)
- Unlimited searchable scrollback buffer
- Quick switch between terminals
- Session sharing between users(Exciting)
- Easily turn on/off logging to file
- Save the content of scrollback buffer to a file
Before actually running screen, it's important to understand the default command character is Ctrl-A.
So start exploring it by running command screen and then for help press Ctrl-A + ? (control and ?)
[ragha@hoysala]screen
Also look for brief help by running screen -h
As you start using it you will get 'screened' (you will be concealed from danger !)
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