Process and Screen

System
Author

Suraj Jaiswal and Siddhesh Dosi

Published

November 18, 2023

To know the owner of the process

ps -ef | grep 63592

Kill a process

kill pid

screen: <sid.sname>

Instruction Command
List all the screens screen -ls
Create/Start a new screen screen -S sname
Quit/Terminate a screen screen -XS sname quit
Scroll history in the screen Ctrl + A, ESC
Detach the screen Ctrl + A + D
Attach/Resume the screen screen -r sid or screen -r sname
Kill the process with id: sid kill sid
Detach an elsewhere running screen screen -d sid or screen -d sname

Step  by step example:

  1. screen -S sample
  2. run some process with stdout output
  3. ctrl + A, Esc (scroll using up and down key)
  4. ctrl + A + D (Detach)
  5. screen -ls

(base) dosisiddhesh@lingolexico:/home/dosisiddhesh$ screen -ls

There is a screen on:

220829.sample   (11/17/2023 11:55:27 AM)        (Detached)

  1. screen -r sample (resume)
  2. ctrl + A + D (Detach)
  3. screen -XS sample quit (Screen terminated)
  4. screen -ls

No Sockets found in /run/screen/S-dosisiddhesh.

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