Sunday, September 16, 2012

Screen : An awesome terminal tool

Today, i get to know about a awesome tool : Screen. Sometimes we need to switch among the terminal to see them. Screen simplified the whole thing.
Now one can see the more than one terminal on single terminal view.

Here , you can see my terminal :






















I divided my terminal into horizontal and vertical subterminals.

Following are the steps to use screen :

1. install screen :
       sudo apt-get install screen

2. on terminal write screen and press enter. follow the instruction.

3. split screen
       Horizontal :
                 press ctrl+a then S (upper case)
        Vertical :
                 press ctrl+a then |
4. start screen
               press ctrl+a then c

enjoy your terminal ...


:) B-)

Reference :
http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7453/how-to-split-the-terminal-into-more-than-one-view

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