Screen Cheat Sheet¶

Command	Description
`Ctrl`+`A`+`C`	Creates a new screen session so that you can use more than one screen session at once
`Ctrl`+`A`+`N`	Switches to the next screen session if you have more than one running screen
`Ctrl`+`A`+`P`	Switches to the previous screen session if you have more than one running screen
`Ctrl`+`A`+`D` or `Ctrl`+`A` then `Ctrl`+`D`	Detaches a screen session without killing the processes running in it
`Ctrl`+`A` then `Ctrl`+`A`	Switches between screens
`exit`	Kills a screen session permanently

Getting in¶

Command	Description
`screen -S <name>`	Start a new screen session with session name
`screen -ls`	List running sessions/screens
`screen -r`	Attach to a running session
`screen -r <name>`	Attach to a running session with a name

Command	Description
`screen -d <name>`	Detach a running session
`Ctrl`+`A`+`D`	Detaches a screen session without killing the processes running in it
`Ctrl`+`A` then `Ctrl`+`D`	Detach and logout (quick exit)
`screen -S <screen#/name> -X quit`	Delete a screen while in detached state

Command	Description
`Ctrl`+`A`+`C`	Create new window
`Ctrl`+`A`+`N` or `Ctrl`+`A`	Change to next window in list
`Ctrl`+`A`+`P` or `Ctrl`+`A`	Change to previous window in list

Command	Description
`screen -h`	See help

Last update: April 2, 2021