On 29/05/13 09:10, Lev Lafayette wrote: > * Malcolm Herbert, Introduction to GNU Screen > > Malcolm has been hacking and playing with a range of Unix systems of > different flavours since 1991 in a variety of environments. Over time he's > encountered tools that manage to get the job done with a minimum of fuss > and have incorporated these into the set that he use on a daily basis; > screen is one such tool and is sometimes referred to as the Swiss Army > chainsaw of the Unix world. > > In a nutshell, screen is a terminal multiplexing tool. Rather than run > multiple individual terminals on your local host (ie, PuTTY windows, > Konsole tabs) for various tasks, screen allows a single local window to > manage multiple instances of shells on the remote host. Configuration > options allow maintenance of remote session state despite network > interruption; multiple active heads; session logging; cut and paste; plus > many others.
By the way, I encourage Malcolm and others to investigate "tmux". It's similar to screen, but offers extra features such as: * multiple clients/sessions can exist and be transferred between each other (ie. you can open a new window in one session; then attach a new client and simultaneously view that window, then even remove it from the first client) * free-form splitting of the virtual console * easier configuration and shortcuts, interactive menus * easier scripting of actions from the shell * multiple paste buffers * automatically renames window titles * selectable vi or emacs controls More details about how it differs at: http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/master/tree/FAQ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
