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Keeping a process running after closing an ssh connection to a Linux computer

  • Connect to the Linux computer with ssh
  • Enter the command 'screen' and press enter
    • The screen shell will look very similar to your normal terminal shell
  • screen commands starts with pressing Ctr-a in the keyboard
    • 'Ctr-a c', create new window
    • 'Ctr-a Ctr-a', Switch to previous window
    • 'Ctr-a n', Switch to next window
    • 'Ctr-a p', Switch to previous window
    • 'Ctr-a #', # is the id of the window you want to move to
    • 'Ctr-a Shift-, See the list of opened windows. Also you can select a window to move to.
    • 'Ctr-a Shift-a', to rename the current window. Will help later to remember the tasks in the windows
    • 'Ctr-a Shift-k', Kill program in current window

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