tldr/pages/common/screen.md

screen

Hold a session open on a remote server. Manage multiple windows with a single SSH connection.

• Start a new screen session:

screen

• Start a new named screen session:

screen -S {{session_name}}

• Start a new daemon and log the output to screenlog.x:

screen -dmLS {{session_name}} {{command}}

• Show open screen sessions:

screen -ls

• Reattach to an open screen:

screen -r {{session_name}}

• Detach from inside a screen:

Ctrl + A, D

• Kill the current screen session:

Ctrl + A, K

• Kill a detached screen:

screen -X -S {{session_name}} quit