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Revision as of 11:18, 12 February 2010

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Description

Screen is a tool to manage multiple terminal sessions. It offers a very handy way to run multiple interactive shells when the screen space is limited.

The manual page is well written and provides comprehensive documentation.

Packages

source: screen

binary: screen

Usage Examples

# screen

To exit from screen, exit from all the shells that you had started in it, or you can also suspend it to background by issuing C-a d (control-a d).

You can later return to the suspended session by starting screen like this:

# screen -dr

Links

[screen man page](/development/documentation/man_pages/screen.html)


See Also

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