{"id":10636,"date":"2021-07-27T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/?p=10636"},"modified":"2024-12-19T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:00:56","slug":"how-to-use-screen-application-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/how-to-use-screen-application-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use Screen application in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Screen<\/strong> is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Screen allows you to switch between terminals in which processes are running without interrupting them. This is especially effective when you need to build \/ install software and monitor disk space or use hardware resources.<\/p>\n<p>Screen can split the current terminal into several windows with the ability to launch the same or other terminals in them. This further simplifies the above task, especially when using large monitors.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">nstalling screen<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To install screen on ubuntu, use this command:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">apt-get install screen<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To install screen on centos, use this command:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">yum install screen<\/span><\/pre>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Getting Started with screen<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To start screen, simply type it as shown below and hit Enter:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10640 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-03-10.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"1058\" height=\"596\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">You\u2019re left at the command prompt, and nothing much seems to have happened. However, you\u2019re now running a shell inside a multiplexed terminal emulator. Why is this a good thing? Well, let\u2019s start a process that\u2019s going to take a long time to complete. We\u2019ll download the source code for the latest Linux kernel and redirect it into a file called latest_kernel.zip.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">curl https:\/\/cdn.kernel.org\/pub\/linux\/kernel\/v5.x\/linux-5.13.4.tar.xz &gt; latest_kernel.zip<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Our download begins, and the curl output shows us the progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10642 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-03-58.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"1015\" height=\"164\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To detach from the current screen, use the key combination &#8220;Ctrl + A&#8221; and then press the &#8220;d&#8221; key.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10644 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-04-32.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"557\" height=\"119\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 3\"><\/p>\n<p>The download process is still running but the window showing the download is hidden. You\u2019re returned to the terminal window from which you launched the screen session. A message tells you that a screen window labeled 48079.pts-0.TechSupport has been detached.<\/p>\n<p>You need the number from the start of the window name to reattach it. If you forget it, you can always use the -ls (list) option, as shown below, to get a list of the detached windows:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -ls<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">When you\u2019re ready, you can use the -r (reattach) option and the number of the session to reattach it, like so:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -r 48079<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The window that\u2019s been working away in the background is now brought back to your terminal window as if it had never left.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10646 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-05-47.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"678\" height=\"131\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 4\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">If it\u2019s a process that\u2019s going to run through to its conclusion it will eventually complete. If it\u2019s a continual process, you\u2019ll eventually want to terminate it. Either way, when the process ends, you can type exit to exit from the screen. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+A, and then K to forcibly kill a window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10648 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-07-40.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"1001\" height=\"95\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 5\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">You\u2019re returned to your previous terminal window, which will still show the command you used to reattach the window. Because we closed our one and only detached window, we get a message that screen is terminating.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Using named Screen sessions<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">You can use the -S (session name) option to name your screen session. If you use a memorable name rather than the numerical identity of the session, it\u2019s more convenient to reconnect to a session. We type the following to name our session \u201cbigfile\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -S bigfile<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">When screen launches our session, we see a blank window with a command prompt. We\u2019re going to download a big file, so we can use a long-running process as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We type the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">curl https:\/\/speed.hetzner.de\/10GB.bin &gt; bigfile.zip<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">When the download starts, we press Ctrl+A, and then press D to detach the session. We type the following to use the -ls (list) option with screen to see the details of our detached session:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -ls<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10650 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-15-29.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"564\" height=\"137\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 6\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Behind the numeric identifier (48804), we see the name of our session (bigfile). We type the following, including the session\u2019s name, to reattach it:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -r bigfile<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We\u2019re reconnected to our download window and see the long download is still in progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10648 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-07-40.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"1001\" height=\"95\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 7\"><\/p>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Using Screen with multiple windows<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">So far, we\u2019ve used screen to place a single process in the background in a detached window. However, screen is capable of doing much more than that. Next, we\u2019ll run a few processes that allow us to monitor some aspects of our computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We type the following to start a screen session called \u201cmonitor\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -S monitor<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">At the command prompt in our new window session, we\u2019ll launch dmesg and use the -H (human-readable) and -w (wait for new messages) options. This will display the kernel buffer messages; new messages will appear as they occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We type the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">dmesg -H -w<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The existing messages appear. We\u2019re not returned to the command prompt because dmseg is waiting for new messages, and will display them as they arrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We want to run another application, so we need a new screen window. We press Ctrl+A, and then C to create a fresh window. We\u2019re going to use watch to repeatedly run vmstat, so we get a frequently updated display of the virtual memory usage on our computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">At the new command prompt, we type the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">watch vmstat<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The vmstat output appears and updates every two seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Our two processes are now running. To hop between the screen windows, you press Ctrl+A, and the number of the window. The first one we created is window zero (0), the next is window 1, and so on. To hop to the first window (the dmesg one), we press Ctrl+A and 0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">If we press Ctrl+A and 1, it takes us back to the vmstat window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">That\u2019s pretty nifty! We can press Ctrl+A, and then D to detach from this session; we can reattach later. Both sessions will still be running. Again, to switch between the windows, we press Ctrl+A and the number (0 or 1) of the window we want to switch to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Let\u2019s go to the next step and view both screens in one window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">To do this, we press Ctrl+A, and then Shift+S (a capital \u201cS\u201d is required).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The window splits into two \u201cregions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10654 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-23-19.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"811\" height=\"431\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 8\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The top region still displays vmstat, and the bottom region is blank. The cursor is highlighted in the screenshot above. To move it to the lower region, we press Ctrl+A, and then Tab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The cursor moves to the lower region, which really is just an empty space. It isn\u2019t a shell, so we can\u2019t type anything in it. To get a useful display, we press Ctrl+A, and then press \u201c0\u201d to display the dmesg window in this region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-18-24-20.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"815\" height=\"431\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 9\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">This gives us both live outputs in one split window. If we press Ctrl+A and D to detach the window, and then reattach it, we\u2019ll lose the split-pane view. However, we can restore it with the following keyboard shortcuts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ctrl+A, S: Split the window horizontally.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ctrl+A, Tab: Move to the lower region.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ctrl+A, 0: Display window zero in the lower region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We can take things even a step further. We\u2019ll now split the lower pane vertically, and add a third process to the display. With the cursor in the lower region, we press Ctrl+A and C to create a new window with a shell in it. The lower region displays the new window and gives us a command prompt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Next, we run the df command to check file system usage:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">df<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">When we see df running, we hit Ctrl+A and the pipe character (|). This splits the lower region vertically. We press Ctrl+A and Tab to move to the new region. Next, we press Ctrl+A and 0 to display the dmesg window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/unihost.com\/help\/minio.php?.\/Screenshot-at-23-07-55.png\" alt=\"screen\" width=\"1100\" height=\"394\" \/ title=\"How to use Screen application in Linux - Image 10\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">You can also move from region to region, and add more vertical or horizontal splits. Here are some more useful key combinations:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ctrl+A: Hop back and forth between the current and previous regions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ctrl+A, Q: Close all regions except the current one.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ctrl+A, X: Close the current region.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Sharing a Screen session<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>You can also use a Screen session so that two people can see and interact with the same window. Let&#8217;s say someone wants to connect to our Ubuntu server.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He would type the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">ssh root@192.168.6.106<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">After he\u2019s connected, he starts a screen session called \u201cssh-share\u201d using the -S (session name) option. He also uses the -d (detach) and -m (enforced creation) options to create a new screen session that\u2019s already detached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He types the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -d -m -S ssh-share<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He types the following, using the -x (multiscreen mode) option to attach the session:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -x ssh-share<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">On another computer, another person connects to the Ubuntu computer with the same account credentials, as shown below:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">ssh root@192.168.6.106<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Once he\u2019s connected, he types the screen command and uses the -X (multiscreen mode) option to join the same window session, like so:<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">screen -X ssh-share<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Now, anything either person types, the other will see. For example, when one person issues the nslookup command, they both see it as it\u2019s typed, as well as its output.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Both people are now sharing a screen session that\u2019s running on a remote Ubuntu computer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For a piece of software that first saw the light of day in 1987, screen still packs a good productivity wallop. Familiarizing yourself with it will be time well spent! 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