System administrators often need to work on multiple consoles and thus they appreciate the ability to switch from one to another in a snap with a quick keyboard shortcut or mouse click.
To do this, in Linux you can install a tool called Tmux, which provides an efficient way of splitting a single window into multiple terminals for different tasks.
# tmux new -s username
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