2012-01-17T21:54:19-08:00 http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash dd+atom1@davedash.com 2008-05-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://davedash.com/2008/05/06/screen <p>Screen is <strong>AWESOME</strong>!</p> <p>I've been doing some data auditing at Delicious and we have a lot of data, and I work off of a laptop connected to other machines.</p> <p>So I caved in and started diving into <code>screen</code>.</p> <p>If your not familiar, screen is a multi-tasking terminal that you can connect and reconnect to. Everything you run in screen keeps running as if you were there. Think of it as VNC for the command line.</p> <p>I keep my screen session on a linux box at work and now I can do this:</p> <pre><code>ssh -t myawesomecomputer screen -x </code></pre> <p>and be connected to my 10 different terminal sessions all at once. I'm connected to any database I might need, and I have several long running tests in others, or even just an open bash prompt at the ready on the right server. Very awesome!</p>