Create a screen session
Create a screen with most of the shells capabilities and a unique name.
screen -aS my_screen_name
Detach from the screen session
Now that you are connected, run some commands as you would in a normal console. When you want to leave the session but do not want the screen session or the process that is is running to terminate, hold down Ctrl a and press d. This will detach you from the screen session.
Ctrl a + d
List the screens you have running
screen -list
The output will look something like this.
screen -list
There is a screen on:
2198.my_screen_name (Detached)
1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-root.
Reattach to the running screen process
screen -r my_screen_name
Terminate a screen session
Attach to the session and exit.
screen -r my_screen_name
exit
Force detach an existing user and reattach as root
screen -DR
You can always kill the PID of the screen session for a down and dirty exit.
