This is useful when working on multiple application or process on a Linux environment. Below are the common commands you’ll most likely needed.
Creating a new screen session
Type screen -S <session name> to start a new screen session. This will detached from your current screen to a new one.
You will now be able to execute your commands or operations needed. To save your session, you need to detached from it by pressing CONTROL + A, D.
Resuming, listing and quitting screen sessions
Once you have multiple named screen session, you can list it down by using the screen -ls command
To resume a session, the command is screen -S <screen name> -r, just make sure you will properly detached from it afterwards (again by pressing CONTROL + A, D).
To quit a detached screen session, use the command screen -S <screen name> -X quit. This will remove the screen session, below is an example of quitting one of the sessions i have created.
