Using 'screen' - The Absolute Essentials

You’re probably here because you heard screen is a more “safe” way to ssh, so that a broken connection won’t terminate your processes. Here’s how to do it:


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://amir.rachum.com/blog/2013/05/10/using-screen-the-absolute-essentials/

tmux better

I prefer to name my screen sessions. screen -S Blah that way when you re-connect you can just do: screen -x Blah I work with others that use screen and this makes it easier.

I prefer to reconnect with screen -dRr screen-name as this logs out other sessions and reconnects.
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