You can reattach to the particular screen session at a later time when you need to and your terminals are still there, the way you left them. Best part is even when you are detached from the terminal session, the process that was originally started under the screen session is still running and managed by the screen. Just using the terminal won’t let you do that. To be able to do that you should be in a screen session. It’s like this. The screen program allows you to use multiple windows in Unix. In other words the screen command lets you detach from a terminal session and then attach it back at a later time. That’s what man page says but I would like to describe it in plain english so that everyone can understand what it is. insert/delete line and support for multiple character sets). Each virtual terminal provides the functions of a DEC VT100 terminal and, in addition, several control functions from the ISO 6429 (ECMA 48, ANSI X3.64) and ISO 2022 standards (e.g. Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells). Then we’ll dive into some command line examples as well. I’m sure once you learn it, you are gonna use it everyday. The screen command works on both unix based operating systems such as linux, mac. Do you know what we are going to talk about? Today we are going to talk about “ Screen“(excited-face). So I thought of writing one for you guys and you are going to love it(wink-face). Hey techies! How’s it going? I couldn’t share a blog post on unix for a while.
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