{"id":3533,"date":"2008-03-08T19:03:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/like-a-virtual-workspace-manager-for-the-shell\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T00:04:21","slug":"like-a-virtual-workspace-manager-for-the-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/08\/like-a-virtual-workspace-manager-for-the-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"like a virtual workspace manager for the shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did I manage to go for so long without knowing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/screen\/\">screen<\/a>? <em>screen<\/em> allows you to create several connection sessions to a terminal, switch between them, detach from them, then reconnect from anywhere. I&#8217;d previously had to to set up long-running remote jobs as background jobs, relying on <em>nohup<\/em> and various methods to prevent terminal output. But no more!<\/p>\n<p>This page taught me all I know about <em>screen<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoforge.com\/linux_screen\">screen: Keep Your Processes Running Despite A Dropped Connection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did I manage to go for so long without knowing about screen? screen allows you to create several connection sessions to a terminal, switch between them, detach from them, then reconnect from anywhere. I&#8217;d previously had to to set up long-running remote jobs as background jobs, relying on nohup and various methods to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1131,270,1176,974,1177,169],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-gnu","tag-linux","tag-screen","tag-ssh","tag-terminal","tag-yay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-UZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}