Linux Screen command:

The screen is a complete software program which can be utilized for the multiplexes the physical console in between the several processes mainly the interactive shells. The screen allows a user to easily open the several different terminal instances which are inside a single window terminal manager.

If you handle multiple programming with a command line interfacing and also using it for separating programming from the windows terminal shell, then the screen application is very useful to you. It also gives permission to connect your sessions with the other users and attach/detach the terminal sessions. The screen is one of the best commands in the Linux, which is hidden inside hundreds of the Linux commands. Given below are some of the main functions of the screen.

Linux Screen command - Examples:

Start screen for the first time:

If you are running the screen for the first time, then only write screen in the command prompts. After that the screen will show the interface exactly as the command prompt.

Show the screen parameter:

Whenever you enter and select the screen, then you can also finish all of your tasks as you can do with the CLI normal environment. As we know that screen is only an application so it is quite natural that it have some parameters and commands. You have to just simply type 'Ctrl+A' and '?' without any quotes to see the all parameters and commands on the screen. To reach out from the help window, you have to press Enter or space-bar. Always remember that all the short methods which take use of Ctrl+A are run without any kind of quotes.

Easily Detach screen:

The great advantages of the screen is that you can easily detach it whenever you want. And even you can also regain it without any risk of lacking anything which you have made on this application. This feature helps you a lot either you have start downloading any patch file for system with the help of Wget command and if suddenly you have lost your connection in the midway then the process of downloading will stop. But because of the screen feature, you can easily download where you have stopped.
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