Screen 202: Making Screen a Little More User Friendly

By now you’ve learned the basics of using screen from my previous posts. You may be wondering how to keep track of what you have running in each of your screen sessions. With this post we’ll show you how to add a little more context to screen that will allow you to more easily see what…

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Screen 201: 7 Ways to Change Your View When Using Screen

In a previous post I detailed the basic usage of GNU Screen. Below I will cover how to customize screen to make it easier to use and more convenient for you. If you’ve used screen at all you know out-of-the-box it can be a bit plain and quirky. In fact, it’s virtually impossible to distinguish a…

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Screen 101: Use Screen to Manage SSH Sessions

If you’re not a Linux power-user then you probably have never heard of Screen, in fact, I would hazard to say most Linux users probably have never heard of this utility. You don’t need to be a Linux desktop user (I’m not) to find Screen useful. I typically use it when running a script that…

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