Introduction to Screen a terminal multiplexer

Screen is terminal multiplexer with lots of function to work on terminal with unlimited terminal windows and tabs. Screen comes with cool features like locking the session or mirroring current session to share with other users for various kind of purpose (i.e. terminal tutorial).

Starting screen with name

screen -S name

List screen

From screen:

Ctrl+a "

From shell:

screen -ls

Lock current session

Ctrl+a x

Detach from screen

Ctrl+a d

Reattach screen

screen -r

Reattach screen with PID

screen -r 10835

Mirroring screen

screen -rxU