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Transfer Your Terminal with Screen

Jan 19, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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Shawn Powers demonstrates the use of the screen command to resume your command line applications when you switch computers.

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Screen tips

ed neville's picture
Submitted by ed neville (not verified) on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 14:03.

Screen, mutt, bash and vim are perhaps the tools that I cannot live without.

I've put together a short page detailing what I use most in screen, this might be of use to others:

http://www.s5h.net/wiki/Screen

Best regards

Screen Woes on OS/X

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Submitted by grabur (not verified) on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 10:16.

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?

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 11:23.

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

ari_stress's picture
Submitted by ari_stress (not verified) on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 00:47.

Thanks for the video. Nice tips! :)

Transfer Your Terminal with Screen

Vince's picture
Submitted by Vince (not verified) on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 18:44.

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

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Submitted by Adam Backstrom (not verified) on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 17:57.

I can't live without screen these days. My nicely-configured shell turns p hostname into exec 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

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 14:36.

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

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Submitted by jkrider on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 14:35.

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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