Using Screen for background processes in Linux / Terminal

Open a new 'screen' instance

screen

Once, in the screen, you can 'detach' (or close out of it) the screen by pressing

CTRL+A and then press D

To resume a screen, you typically do this:

screen -x

If you have more than one screen instance, it will tell you their IDs, in which case you can choose which one to resume

screen -r 

Sources

• https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/66568/nohup-or-persistent-process-on-mac-os-x-ssh
• http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/06/unix_gems.html
• http://ss64.com/osx/screen.html