Screen

Screen is a common terminal multiplexer and terminal sharing tool.

Create a named session

You can create a detached session using a command like:

screen -d -m -S my_session_name

List Screen Sessions

List existing screen sessions your user can acess with the -ls flag.

user@host-vm:~# screen -ls
There is a screen on:
        23249.my_session_name (11/26/2013 05:08:55 PM)        (Attached)
        1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-root.

Connect to a session

To attach to an existing screen session simply run:

screen -x my_session_name