screen Cheat Sheet

by gissehel via cheatography.com/278/cs/149/

Enter / Quit

Window (screen tabs)

Split screen

screen -S foo

create a screen named "foo"

[^A] [c]

Create a new window

screen -x foo

attach to an existing screen

exit or [^D]

exit the current shell created by

named "foo"

(in screen

the window, thus exit the

[^A] [|]

Split screen vertically

detach current screen

shell)

window

[^A] [^I] or [^A]

Change splitted part

[^A] [0]

Go to window 0

[Tab]
[^A] [Q]

[^A] [d] or [^A]

[^D]
exit or [^D] (in

exit the shell starting the

[^A] [3]

Go to window 3

screen shell)

screen thus exit the screen

[^A] [n]

Go to next window

[^A] [p]

Go to previous window

exit or [^D] are not screen commands but bash

ones

exit or [^D] are not screen commands but bash

Syntax convention

ones

[Control] key

Disclaimer

[^A]

[Control] + [a]

This cheat only describe the default key

[a]

[a]

bindings

[A]

[Shift] + [a]

key bindings can be modified by editing

[^A][A ]

[Control] + [a] then [Shift] + [a]

~/.screenrc or another screenrc file

[^A][A ]

different from [^A][a]

[^A] [S]

Split screen
horizontally

Remove all splitted parts

Misc
[^A] [A]

Rename current window

[^A] [k]

Kill current window

[^A] [^A]

Switch to last used window

[^A] [a]

Send [^A] to current screen

By gissehel

Published 11th December, 2011.

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Last updated 5th June, 2014.

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