A basic how-to for "Screen"

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Screen is a console session management tool. It allows the user to create a “console session” that can be detached from and re-attached to at a later point in time.

HOW-TO Use screen

  • Install screen by: “sudo aptitude install screen”
  • Launch screen by: “screen”
  • Name current session by: “screen -S s1”
  • Detach from session by: closing the console window
  • Reattach to session by: “screen -d -r s1”

Note: “s1” is the name we gave to the session. 

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