Posts in “Gnu Screen”

I’ve been using GNU Screen for years, and I always wished it had a “broadcast” functionality like MultiXterm.

One of the features I’ve always wished Gnu screen had was the ability to split a screen horizontally, so you can for example run a grep or mc in the top half of the terminal, and some commands in the bottom half.

How to connect to a Cisco device (or other serial devices) using OSX and a USB to Serial converter (eg ATEN).

Here’s a variety of tricks I’ve picked up for Gnu screen and .screenrc from the [Screen Users Email List][1]

A [good post on debian-administration][1] on multi-user screen. The key points:

• change to the window you want to move

[Screen][1] is a really useful console tool that allows you to copy and paste text, scroll back through screen output, reattach if you lose your connection, and so on. One useful trick is sharing a screen between 2 or more users, so you can see what each other is doing whilsts typing – useful for learning or solving a difficult problem (see also [LinuxQuestions.Org][2]).