HowTo Share A Terminal Session Using Screen
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The screen command can be particularly useful in the following circumstances:
- When you want to leave a terminal session running even after logging out of the system.
- When you want to share a terminal session with another user (sort of like VNC but for the terminal).
The following command sequence sets up a shared screen session named shared:
[pkb@rice ~]$ screen -d -m -S shared [pkb@rice ~]$
Listing Your Screen Sessions
The following shows what screen sessions you currently have running:
[pkb@rice ~]$ screen -ls There is a screen on: 8632.shared (Detached) 1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-pkb. [pkb@rice ~]$
Attaching To A Existing Screen
The following allows you to attach to a existing screen session named shared:
[pkb@rice ~]$ screen -r shared
Once attached, all of your commands will be done within the screen named shared. To detach yourself from the screen, use the Ctrl-a d command sequence.
