[kwlug-disc] Screen vs Tmux

[Erik Schnetter]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:37 AM David Critch <dcritch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:30 AM Erik Schnetter <schnetter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> For me, the main point of tmux or screen is that they keep the remote
>> session active when the ssh connection drops. The advantage of tmux
>> here is that I can give names to sessions and reattach by name,
>> whereas screen numbers them according to their process id.
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> You can do that with screen:
> screen -S foobar
> <detach>
> screen -r foobar

Thanks! Apparently my RTFM skills need improving.

The killer app, of course, is combining autossh with tmux. This means
I never have to re-login if I lose connection or move between wireless
networks.

-erik

>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:00 AM Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I started with Tmux. Guess Screen might be similar. I usually use Tmux to split screens and type the same command at the same time. We have an installation script which needs to run on all machines. And sometimes I tail -f access logs on all split screens and see where the request lands.
>> > I saw people use tabs as workspaces and it was fantastic. But it's not what I usually do so I only memorize the split screen commands so far.
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>> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:26 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
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>> >> Hi all,  (cross-posting from GTALUG)
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>> >> I try to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) whenever possible, even
>> >> though I have VMware and VirtualBox available.  One thing that WSL
>> >> terminal lacks is "tab" that all other terminals have.  So, that calls
>> >> for Screen and Tmux.  But, which one?  And, why?
>> >> --
>> >> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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