[kwlug-disc] Screen vs Tmux

[David Critch]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:30 AM Erik Schnetter <schnetter at gmail.com> wrote:

> For me, the main point of tmux or screen is that they keep the remote
> session active when the ssh connection drops. The advantage of tmux
> here is that I can give names to sessions and reattach by name,
> whereas screen numbers them according to their process id.
>
> You can do that with screen:
screen -S foobar
<detach>
screen -r foobar


> -erik
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:00 AM Raymond Chen <raymondchen625 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I started with Tmux. Guess Screen might be similar. I usually use Tmux
> to split screens and type the same command at the same time. We have an
> installation script which needs to run on all machines. And sometimes I
> tail -f access logs on all split screens and see where the request lands.
> > I saw people use tabs as workspaces and it was fantastic. But it's not
> what I usually do so I only memorize the split screen commands so far.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:26 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,  (cross-posting from GTALUG)
> >>
> >> I try to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) whenever possible, even
> >> though I have VMware and VirtualBox available.  One thing that WSL
> >> terminal lacks is "tab" that all other terminals have.  So, that calls
> >> for Screen and Tmux.  But, which one?  And, why?
> >> --
> >> William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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