Screen: Run processes in the background on a Linux server

The program "Screen" can run processes in background on a Linux server.

This starts an new background session with name "your-screen-name"

screen -S your-screen-name

To save the screen and return to the terminal, type Ctrl+A+D (Ctrl+A is the hint for screen that you want to do something and "D" then "d"etaches from the session without stopping it).

Restore your screen :

screen -d -r your-screen-name

List all available screen sessions:

screen -ls 

Type screen -list or -ls to identify the detached screen session.

~$ screen -list
    There are screens on:
         20751.Melvin_Peter_V42  (Detached)  

Note: 20751.Melvin_Peter_V42 is your session id.

Quit a screen session:

screen -X -S [session id you want to kill] quit

Or just type

exit

if you are attached in your screen session.