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*Enter the command 'screen' and press enter | *Enter the command 'screen' and press enter | ||
**The screen shell will look very similar to your normal terminal shell | **The screen shell will look very similar to your normal terminal shell | ||
| + | *screen commands starts with pressing Ctr-a in the keyboard | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a c', create new window | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a Ctr-a', Switch to previous window | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a n', Switch to next window | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a p', Switch to previous window | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a #', # is the id of the window you want to move to | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a "', See the list of opened windows. Also you can select a window to move to. | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a A', to rename the current window. Will help later to remember the tasks in the windows | ||
| + | **'Ctr-a K', Kill program in current window | ||
| + | *To detach your terminal from the process press 'Ctr-a d'. This will close the window, but the process still running. Also, if you close your terminal, all processes called from screen will still running. | ||
| + | *To reattach left running processes, open a terminal and type 'screen -r'. Whaalllaaa!!! All your processes are still there. | ||
| + | *For other commands inside screen, type 'Ctr-a ?' | ||
Latest revision as of 08:09, 7 March 2009
Keeping a process running after closing an ssh connection to a Linux computer
- Connect to the Linux computer with ssh
- Enter the command 'screen' and press enter
- The screen shell will look very similar to your normal terminal shell
- screen commands starts with pressing Ctr-a in the keyboard
- 'Ctr-a c', create new window
- 'Ctr-a Ctr-a', Switch to previous window
- 'Ctr-a n', Switch to next window
- 'Ctr-a p', Switch to previous window
- 'Ctr-a #', # is the id of the window you want to move to
- 'Ctr-a "', See the list of opened windows. Also you can select a window to move to.
- 'Ctr-a A', to rename the current window. Will help later to remember the tasks in the windows
- 'Ctr-a K', Kill program in current window
- To detach your terminal from the process press 'Ctr-a d'. This will close the window, but the process still running. Also, if you close your terminal, all processes called from screen will still running.
- To reattach left running processes, open a terminal and type 'screen -r'. Whaalllaaa!!! All your processes are still there.
- For other commands inside screen, type 'Ctr-a ?'
