Why you should be using screen

Very few developers use the screen utility that is available in all *nix systems

• Screen will persist even if you have a network outage!
• Mitigate the problem of having multiple ssh sessions!
• Name your sessions according to work and create away!

Cheat sheet

Ctrl-A + Ctrl-D  - Detach  

Ctrl-A + Esc - Copy mode / Scroll 

screen -S <new-screen-name>  
screen -r <screen-name>  
screen -rd <screen-name>  

To enter command mode -

Ctrl-A + Esc 

: srollback 99999