screen

screen session

• start a screen session.

screen -S xlate

• To detach the process and send it to the background, press Ctrl-A followed by D. To reconnect to the process later:

screen -d -r xlate.

• To scroll up while in the process, press Ctrl-A, then Esc. Press the Page Up key. Then, exit scroll mode by pressing Esc.

• To then complete the process:

screen -X -S xlate quit

• list active screen sessions

  screen -ls
  

• terminate current screen session

  exit