Command-line Basics: Persistent Remote Sessions

1 · · July 3, 2019, midnight
Terminal applications come in many shapes and sizes. Some support tabs, others support splits. Some support both while some of the more archaic ones don’t support either. Terminal multiplexers, like screen and tmux, allow you to bring the power of multiple sessions as well as persistence to any terminal. Getting started The screen command is usually installed by default by hosting providers, but may not be pre-installed on your local system. The tmux command is a more modern replacement for scre...