Gentle intro about Screen in ubuntu

Do you feel that your present execution will run in background and you are able to terminate the terminal?

Then screen you all need. Here I will note some basic use cases of screen command for ubuntu. In case I forgot and need all the basics in one place. :D

Installation

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install screen

screen management

• Creating a screen session

    screen -S myscreen
  

• Detaching a screen session

    clt + a d
  

• Display all your detached, attached screen

    screen -ls
  

• Opening any detached screen

    screen -r myscreen
  

• Killing any screen

    screen -ls
    # copy the screen id you want to kill
    screen -X -S screen_id quit
    screen -X -S 25421 quit
  

References

• https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-linux-screen/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509677/kill-detached-screen-session