The screen command. It basically saves your command line session for when you come back. It's sort of a terminal manager, like a window manager. That way, in a single terminal session, you can have multiple virtual terminals going on. It's very cool.

The screen command. It basically saves your command line session for when you come back. It's sort of a terminal manager, like a window manager. That way, in a single terminal session, you can have multiple virtual terminals going on. It's very cool.

If one uses screen, this shell function (put it into .bashrc) is extremely useful:

function scr { if screen -ls | grep -q Main; then # reattach to Main: screen -xr Main else # name session "Main": screen -S Main fi } 

upon typing scr, it will check if your main session exists and will attach to it. Otherwise it will create it.