Getting started with “screen”

I’ve been wanting to to get into using “screen” ever since Drew Raines introduced me to it last year.  Here’s the great tutorial by Bjørn Hansen that finally got me going using it.

To get started:

screen

Now, you can run your app.  Press ctrl-a, then d to detach.

When ready to reconnect, type:

screen -x

You can get a list of all screen sessions:

screen -ls

Simply type the PID to select a particular screen.

Three other handy commands:

ctrl-a, then c to create a new screen
ctrl-a, then n to go to the next screen
ctrl-a, then p to go to the previous screen