Launch screen to enter screen session.

screen -h 800 Starts a new screen session and sets the number of lines in the scrollback buffer to 800. The default is 100 lines.

C-a c     (screen)    Create new windows.

C-a SPACE (next)      Advance to next window (with wraparound).

C-a C-a   (other)     Toggle between the current and previously
              displayed windows.

C-a 0     (select n)  Switch to window n=0 ... 9.
 ...
C-a 9

C-a w     (windows)   Show a list of window names in the status line.

logout from shell will close the very screen. screen session is terminated if all screen session have been log out.

C-a ?     (help)      Show all keybindings.

C-a l     (redisplay) Redraw this window.

C-a H     (log)       Log stdout of window n to screenlog.n.

C-a C-[   (copy)      Start copy mode.  Move cursor with h,j,k,l.
              Set 2 marks with SPACE or y.  Abort with ESC.
              (C-[ is ESC.)  Preceeding second mark with
              an a appends the text to the copy buffer.

C-a C-]   (paste)     Output copy buffer to current window's stdin.

C-a <     (readbuf)   Read the copy buffer from /tmp/screen-exchange.
C-a >     (writebuf)  Write the copy buffer to /tmp/screen-exchange.

screen -list
screen -ls
screen -wipe

Show all available sessions and their status. Use -wipe to remove DEAD sessions.

documented on: 2000.06.09 Fri 16:43:18