#Screen download#

In your home, you start to SSH again to your server and you want to see the progress of your download process. Re-attach the Terminal Session with ScreenĪfter you detach the screen, let’s say you are disconnecting your SSH session and going home. The output will be like this: [detached from ~ $ 7. You will not see anything when you press those buttons. While downloading in progress, you can press “ Ctrl-A” and “ d“. Doneġ upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1146 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 127 kB of additional disk space will be used.

#Screen Patch#

Let’s say that you are downloading a 400MB patch for your system using the wget command. You are in the middle of SSH on your server. Then, you can restore it without losing anything you have done on the screen. One of the advantages of a screen that is you can detach it. In the above command, the demo-screen is the name of the session. So, let’s use the -S option of the command to create a named session: $ screen -S demo-screen The screen command allows us to create a session with a user-defined name, which comes in handy when there are multiple sessions available. Just like other Linux commands, we can use 'y' to continue or 'n' to abort the operation.

It shows the warning message in the left bottom corner. In the above output, we can see that the screen command is waiting for the user’s confirmation.

It is important to note that, this action will interrupt the command execution from the current virtual window.

We can terminate the active window session using the ctrl-a + k key combinations. The next column represents the name of the window and its default format is 4. The first column represents the window number and it starts from zero. In the above output, we can see the number and name of the window. Now let’s use the ctrl-a + ' key combination to list all open windows of the current screen session: List Screen Open Windows In the previous example, we started a new shell session using the screen command. (Please note that all shortcuts which use “ Ctrl-A” are done without quotes). To get out of the help screen, you can press the “ space-bar” button or “ Enter“. Then you will see all commands or parameters on the screen. But since the screen is an application, so it has commands or parameters. When you enter the screen, you can do all your work as you are in the normal command-line environment. Then the screen will show an interface exactly as the command prompt. Just type the screen at the command prompt. In the above syntax, we can see that all the parameters are options and they are represented by the square brackets (). The syntax of the screen command is as follows $ screen ] Let’s start to see the usage of the screen command in Linux with the following examples. Now, let’s verify that the command has been installed successfully: $ screen -versionĪctually, the screen is a very good terminal multiplexer program in Linux which is hidden inside hundreds of Linux commands.

#Screen install#

Please follow your distribution installation procedure to install the screen. But, Linux Mint does not have a screen installed by default, so I need to install it first using the apt-get command before using it. On my Ubuntu Server Edition, the screen command has been installed by default.

#Screen how to#

How to Split a Screen Window Horizontally How to Jump to a Particular Screen Window How to Switch Between Current and Previous Window How to Move to the Previous Screen Window Switching Between Screen Terminal Windows Re-attach the Terminal Session with Screen