Have you even been in the situation where you were running a 3 hour copy or script on a remote machine, only to find that it broke at 2h 45min because your network connection or SSH connection dropped momentarily? If so, you know how painful that feels :) Welcome to GNU screen, the utility which allows you to start a separate shell which will not be interrupted if your network connection breaks. Read on to discover how to use it and more!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/using-gnu-screen-with-examples