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    While screen is a mighty nice tool, nohup is probably better suited for this task. Screen is only needed when you require the program to be interactive, and to be able to go back to the application at a later time. To be entirely honest, I often find myself using screen for the exact same reason as the question above.
    – wvdschel
    Commented Jun 5, 2009 at 5:59
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    Even with non-interactive task, it's nice to see that the program finished without errors. It's also good practice to always use screen in case of disconnection.
    – bbigras
    Commented Jun 5, 2009 at 6:45
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    alternative to screen would be tmux
    – rubo77
    Commented Oct 8, 2012 at 13:13
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    This is the poster child for why link-only answers should never be used.
    – mbroshi
    Commented Jun 23, 2014 at 14:40
  • I know this is an old answer, but it has been flagged as a link-only answer and in fact the link is dead. Would it be possible to expand it out to show a brief example of how to use screen, perhaps from the originally linked example (still available at web.archive.org/web/20090106170543/http://www.rackaid.com/…)?
    – josliber
    Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 5:16