Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.
no, tmux is a newer screen. some of us havent switched cos we’re too lazy i guess? i think the common wisdom is that it’s better. i havent tried cos i already know enough of screen and it’s fine for me
Or you can learn both and spend the rest of your life trying screen commands in tmux and vice versa.
I recently switched to tmux and boy, it’s way better. I basically use only tmux now anymore. Creating panes to have two processes in one glance, multiple windows, awesome. Plus all the benefits of screen.
In a similar vein, nohup lets you send tasks to the background and seems to be everywhere.
You can’t mention nohup without at least mentioning kill -9 or pkill to slay the monster you created you madman
Eyyy, don’t hate, this is how I start all my work programs. That command is really nice and creates all work programs as children of a single terminal session for easy closing later.
Simply change your terminal command to execute the terminal multiplexer of your choice.
man terminal_of_choice, look for (start) command.
How does screen / tmux work when detached from a session, how does it keep the session alive (both when running locally, and while ssh:ing to a server)? Is there a daemon involved?
