Screen is a very powerful tool to keep a process running in the background while retaining the ability to log out and log back in anytime to check on the output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Annoyingly I keep forgetting the commands to use To start a screen session:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To list existing screen sessions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To reconnect to a screen session:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To reconnect to a still attached screen session:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To detach a screen session: To open a new screen session while inside screen: To switch back to the previous screen session: To switch to the next screen session: References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Screen is a very powerful tool to keep a process running in the background while retaining the ability to log out and log back in anytime to check on the output. Annoyingly I keep forgetting the commands to use screen effectively so here\u2019s a quick reference guide of commands and shortcuts for myself and maybe others. Commands … Continue reading “Linux Screen Commands and Shortcuts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickdu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}screen<\/code> effectively so here\u2019s a quick reference guide of commands and shortcuts for myself and maybe others.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCommands<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
$ screen -S <command><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
$ screen -ls<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
$ screen -r <session_name><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
$ screen -rd <session_name><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Shortcuts<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
ctrl + a + d<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nctrl + a + c<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nctrl + a + p<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nctrl + a + n<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nUse: screen [-opts] [cmd [args]]\n or: screen -r [host.tty]\n\nOptions:\n-4 Resolve hostnames only to IPv4 addresses.\n-6 Resolve hostnames only to IPv6 addresses.\n-a Force all capabilities into each window's termcap.\n-A -[r|R] Adapt all windows to the new display width & height.\n-c file Read configuration file instead of '.screenrc'.\n-d (-r) Detach the elsewhere running screen (and reattach here).\n-dmS name Start as daemon: Screen session in detached mode.\n-D (-r) Detach and logout remote (and reattach here).\n-D -RR Do whatever is needed to get a screen session.\n-e xy Change command characters.\n-f Flow control on, -fn = off, -fa = auto.\n-h lines Set the size of the scrollback history buffer.\n-i Interrupt output sooner when flow control is on.\n-l Login mode on (update \/var\/run\/utmp), -ln = off.\n-ls [match] or\n-list Do nothing, just list our SockDir [on possible matches].\n-L Turn on output logging.\n-Logfile file Set logfile name.\n-m ignore $STY variable, do create a new screen session.\n-O Choose optimal output rather than exact vt100 emulation.\n-p window Preselect the named window if it exists.\n-q Quiet startup. Exits with non-zero return code if unsuccessful.\n-Q Commands will send the response to the stdout of the querying process.\n-r [session] Reattach to a detached screen process.\n-R Reattach if possible, otherwise start a new session.\n-s shell Shell to execute rather than $SHELL.\n-S sockname Name this session <pid>.sockname instead of <pid>.<tty>.<host>.\n-t title Set title. (window's name).\n-T term Use term as $TERM for windows, rather than \"screen\".\n-U Tell screen to use UTF-8 encoding.\n-v Print \"Screen version 4.09.00 (GNU) 30-Jan-22\".\n-wipe [match] Do nothing, just clean up SockDir [on possible matches].\n-x Attach to a not detached screen. (Multi display mode).\n-X Execute <cmd> as a screen command in the specified session.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n