[ Thanks to Amy
Kucharik for this link. ]
“One of the things I find rewarding about administering Linux
and Unix systems is that there are so many tools out there to help
you get your job done. For almost every conceivable class of
problem out there, someone has taken the time to craft a utility to
address it. And every now and then, that utility is ingenious
enough to entirely change how you look at the problem. To me,
screen is just such a utility.“Perhaps I’m so impressed by screen because I didn’t know of its
existence for the first 10 years or so that I worked with Unix
systems…”
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