Transfer Your Terminal with Screen
January 19th, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
Shawn Powers demonstrates the use of the screen command to resume your command line applications when you switch computers.
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Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
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Screen Woes on OS/X
On January 20th, 2009 grabur (not verified) says:
This is probably a simple keyboard, binding issue, but just when I had swatted up, and saw the virtues of screen, I tried it at work from a terminal to another machine over ssh in OS/X and had a horrible time, with keyboard problems. Anyone else?
From OSX?
On January 20th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:
Are you ssh'ing into a Linux box, or running screen in OSX? I've never been able to use screen from OSX itself, but had an OK time if I'm ssh'd into a Linux machine...
__________________________Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
cool
On January 19th, 2009 ari_stress (not verified) says:
Thanks for the video. Nice tips! :)
Transfer Your Terminal with Screen
On January 19th, 2009 Vince (not verified) says:
I like these small videos. Sometime it's a lot easier to see someone do something as they explain it than see it in print.
GNU screen is awesome
On January 19th, 2009 Adam Backstrom (not verified) says:
I can't live without screen these days. My nicely-configured shell turns
p hostnameintoexec ssh hostname 'screen -RD'so I can quickly replace my local shell with screen on a remote server. No worrying about dropped network connections or having to back out of my shells, I just detach and reconnect later.That Doughnut Was Tasty
On January 19th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:
It was the last doughnut in the box, and they gave me a hard time about it. :)
__________________________Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
next to ssh, screen is one
On January 19th, 2009 jkrider says:
next to ssh, screen is one of the must haves for a sys admin
mmm... be right back, time for popcorn
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