July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Ctrl-a [
Ctrl-a Esc
Enter copy/scrollback mode. (copy)
Ctrl-a ]
Write contents of the paste buffer to the standard input queue
of the current window. (paste)
Ctrl-a {
Ctrl-a }
Copy and paste a previous line. (history)
Ctrl-a >
Write paste buffer to a file. (writebuf)
Ctrl-a <
Read screen-exchange file into paste buffer. (readbuf)
Ctrl-a =
Remove file used by Ctrl-a < and Ctrl-a >. (removebuf)
Ctrl-a ,
Show where screen comes from, where it went to, and why
you can use it. (license)
Ctrl-a _
Start/stop monitoring the current window for inactivity.
(silence)
Ctrl-a *
List all currently attached displays. (displays)
script
script [option] [file]
Fork the current shell and make a typescript of a terminal session.
The typescript is written to file.Ifnofile is given, the typescript is
saved in the file typescript. The script ends when the forked shell
exits, usually with Ctrl-D or exit.
Options
-a Append to file or typescript instead of overwriting the previous
contents.
-c command
Run the specified command instead of an interactive shell.
-f Flush output after each write. Useful if another person is
monitoring the output file.
-q Operate in quiet mode.
-t Write timing data to standard error. Each entry has two fields:
the first is the elapsed time since the last output, and the
second is ...
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