List of Command Line Tools

[Jerry Davis]

On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:41 -0700
James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Screen is the greatest tool EVER!!!  A CLI window manager!  I mean, DUDE!!!

I work from home 3 days a week. Most of the time, in the morning and in the mid
afternoon, i have re-connect my vpn 10 - 15 times in as many minutes! REALLY
bothersome.

I say this, because I consider screen the essential tool for everything else I
do. When my vpn goes down while I am in the middle of something, all I have to
do is reconnect my vpn, login to the server that I was doing work on, and do a
screen -rd <screen-name> and I am RIGHT BACK to what I was doing!

The other reason I use screen is for very long running commands. Case in point,
I was converting a large cvs repository over to a clearcase vob, and I did the
effort in a screen. It took a few days to get all the cvs repository down on
the clearcase server, and about a week to do a clearfsimport to get the old cvs
data in the new vob. screen allowed me to detach and let it run for those 2
weeks.

I couldn't live without it.

Jerry