screen

Posted 2004-03-12 @ 09:40:03

Via Torrez, Kuro5hin has a nice intro to the GNU screen utility. I spend a good bit of my day on the command line, and have been meaning to check this out. I currently use iTerm & just open a few tabs to emulate screen's multiplexing, but what's mentioned in the K5 article that I missed skimming screen's man page is that screen allows you to abstract the terminal from your processes. That is, you can shut down screen & log out without affecting the programs you're running, and log back in—even from another location—and pick up where you left off.