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screen command tutorial

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Using screen

Let's say you only have a terminal or a SSH access and want to perform multiple attached commands at the same time. E.g: wget.

Start a new screen

screen

Press enter to start using CLI and enter your command.

Detach the screen

To detach from your screen (and let the command run), press : Ctrl + a then d

List and re-attach running screens

screen -ls

You'll see a list of PIDs. If for example I want to take back the hand on 9623, I'll enter :

screen -r 9623

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