Screen is a program manager for your shell. It allows you to run multiple commands simultaneously in one terminal and allows you to easily switch between tasks.

It's like a window manager for a gui desktop system, except it's for your terminal.

(more linux)

Commands

• ^a a = send a literal ^a to the running program
• ^w = list windows
• a c = start a new window
• $ screen <command> = from a shell, launch the given command in a new screen window
• ^a <n> = go to window n
• ^a n = go to the next window
• ^a p = go to the previous window
• ^a ^a = go to the previously active window
• ^a k = kill window with SIG_KILL signal
• ^a \ = exit screen and close all open windows