screen Cheat Sheet by gissehel
screen commands survival guide. Sorted by usefulness.
linux command screen advanced line
Enter / Quitscreen -S foo | create a screen named "foo" | screen -x foo | attach to an existing screen named "foo" | [^A] [d] or [^A] [^D] | detach current screen | exit or [^D] (in screen shell) | exit the shell starting the screen thus exit the screen |
exit or [^D] are not screen commands but bash ones Syntax convention^ | [Control] key | [^A] | [Control] + [a] | [a] | [a] | [A] | [Shift] + [a] | [^A][A] | [Control] + [a] then [Shift] + [a] | [^A][A] | different from [^A][a] |
| | Window (screen tabs)[^A] [c] | Create a new window | exit or [^D] (in screen shell) | exit the current shell created by the window, thus exit the window | [^A] [0] | Go to window 0 | [^A] [3] | Go to window 3 | [^A] [n] | Go to next window | [^A] [p] | Go to previous window |
exit or [^D] are not screen commands but bash ones
DisclaimerThis cheat only describe the default key bindings | key bindings can be modified by editing ~/.screenrc or another screenrc file |
| | Split screen[^A] [S] | Split screen horizontally | [^A] [|] | Split screen vertically | [^A] [^I] or [^A] [Tab] | Change splitted part | [^A] [Q] | Remove all splitted parts |
Misc[^A] [A] | Rename current window | [^A] [k] | Kill current window | [^A] [^A] | Switch to last used window | [^A] [a] | Send [^A] to current screen |
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This cheatsheet should mention that [^A] is actually just the escape key, which by default is ^A but can be something else. For example, Ubuntu's screen wrapper byobu also uses F12 depending on your keybindings.
For me, ^a,s and ^a,q are the equivalent of bash ^s and ^q [freeze/unfreeze terminal]
I see holding shift makes a difference and does split screens. That's great information, perhaps it would be best to add the lowercase so nobody is confused?
@Ian : In fact ^A (in screen dialect) is not [Esc] but it's what emacs calls [C-a] or what windows calls [Ctrl+a]. which is obtained by pressing [Ctrl] then pressing [A] then releasing [A] then releasing [Ctrl]. It's true that it should be documented (even it's a classical unix representation of shotcuts, you can find it for example in pine or mutt interface).
@RicoPags : What should also be documented : While [^A] mean [Ctrl+a] in screen help, [^A] [A] doesn't mean [Ctrl+a] [a] but [Ctrl+a] [Shift+a]. It's screen own convention (the one you'll see in [^A] [?]) but it's very misleading.
Would you mind adding the Enter/Quit commands from https://library.linode.com/linux-tools/utilities/screen#sph_managing-screen-attachment ?
There should be scroll buffer shortcut. Would you please add ^A + Esc combination and how to use this mode?
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