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To invoke screen, simply use the following command: | |||
<nowiki>screen</nowiki> | |||
Alternatively, to start a program with screen: | |||
<nowiki>screen vi program.c</nowiki> | |||
This will invoke screen and, in the newly-created window, start editing the file program.c in vi. | |||
Revision as of 18:50, 27 June 2013
Introduction
GNU Screen, or "screen", is a window management program available on UMIACS UNIX hosts that splits a terminal into multiple windows that can each be used for a separate process. This can be very useful when a process will be running for a long time since it can be allocated to one of the virtual terminals created by screen, and the others can be used for other shell tasks.
Usage
To invoke screen, simply use the following command:
screen
Alternatively, to start a program with screen:
screen vi program.c
This will invoke screen and, in the newly-created window, start editing the file program.c in vi.