Felipe Gentil

Screen basic cheat sheet

09 May 2017

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

Here are listed a few useful screen commands:

  • Create a named session
$ screen -S NAME_OF_SESSION
  • Detach an active session (inside)
C-a d
  • Detach and logout an active session (inside)
C-a D D
  • Detach a running session
screen -d NAME_OF_SESSION
  • List sessions
$ screen -ls

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