better living with screen(1)

I get tired of running jobs that I forget to nohup and background: if my laptop goes to sleep, the jobs exit and I have to restart them. Or perhaps I just want to keep en eye on something without cluttering up another window.

So I decided to take another look at screen(1). I didn’t realize it was in the base system on OS X, assuming it was a MacPorts or other open source add-on. But I know I’ll forget about starting it if I don’t make it a habit. Turns out someone else has figured out how to handle that.

Screen

This handy tip means I’ll either start up a new instance of screen and re-attach to any existing terminals or simply re-attach with an existing instance. Sounds like a winner.

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