[General] screen command or a replacement

[Bashar Al-Abdulhadi]

W'salaam Abdulaziz,

although your session shouldn't be lost if your terminal dies before 
pressing ^AD but i noticed "some" applications (not copy or wget) dies 
if you dont press ^AD before your terminal dies, anyhow what i thought 
of is:

# screen

# script -t 0 monitor.txt

# ^AD

# tail -f monitor.txt

man script for more flags


and for dying maybe cause you are running `screen commandgoeshere` not 
running `screen` then hitting enter then `commandgoeshere` ?



Abdulaziz AL-Asfour wrote:

> Salamu Alaykom...
>
> To all *nix experts:
>
> For example you want to download or copy a big file ... or you want to 
> start any command using the terminal (from a remote PC):
>
>     * You want to see the output of this command
>     * While seeing the output, if the session gets disconnected, you
>       do not want to interrupt the operation (Coping or viewing the
>       output of the command)
>
> If i do:
>
>     * screen /opt/application/bin/server
>
> or
>
>     * screen wget url.tar
>
> If there is a network problem and your terminal gets disconnected 
> before pressing (Ctrl-A-D), you will lose your session (Correct me if 
> I am wrong)
>
> I do not want that to happen.... and I want at the same time to view 
> the output of the executed command (Maybe putting it in the background 
> won't do the trick also)....
>
> Any tips, shabab? :)
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