screen
GNU Screen is a software application that can be used to multiplex several virtual consoles, allowing a user to access multiple separate terminal sessions inside a single terminal window or remote terminal session.
Start screen
screen
Detach from Session
CTRL+a , d
Attach to Session
screen -r -S <name>
like
screen -r -S postalcodes
Start Application in screen Session
screen -dmS postalcodes bash -c "cd /opt/postalcodes && exec java -jar postalcode.jar server config.yml"
This starts a screen session with the name postalcodes
, changes the current directory to /opt/postalcodes
and starts the Dropwizard server application postalcodes with the parameters server and config.yml.
This is useful for applications which tend to output things on stdout
or stderr
because the terminal session is not ended by leaving because you can detach from and attach to the session.