====== screen ======

===== Default Keybindings =====

  * ''C-a c''
  * ''C-a C-c''

===== Syntax =====

  * ''**screen** [//-opts//] [//n//] [//cmd// [//args//]]''

===== Description =====

Establish a new window.  The flow-control [[man:command-line options]]
(''-f'', ''-fn'' and ''-fa''), title (a.k.a.) option (''-t''), login
options (''-l'' and ''-ln'') , terminal type option (''-T //<term>//''),
the all-capability-flag (''-a'') and scrollback option (''-h //<num>//'')
may be specified with each command.  The option (''-M'') turns [[monitor|monitoring]]
on for this window.  The option (''-L'') turns [[log|output logging]] on for this
window.  If an optional number //n// in the range 0..MAXWIN-1 is given,
the window number //n// is assigned to the newly created window (or, if
this number is already in use, the next available number).  If a command
is specified after ''screen'', this command (with the given arguments) is
started in the window; otherwise, a shell is created.

Note that, unlike previous versions of ''screen'', no additional default
window is created when ''screen'' commands are included in your .screenrc
file.  When the initialization is completed, screen switches to the last
window specified in your .screenrc file or, if none, opens a default
window #0.

''screen'' has built in some functionality of ''cu'' and ''telnet''.  See
also chapter [[man:Window Types]].

===== Examples =====

If your ".screenrc" contains the lines

<code>
# example for .screenrc:
screen 1
screen -fn -t foobar -L 2 telnet foobar
</code>

''screen'' creates a shell window (in window #1) and a window with a
TELNET connection to the machine "foobar" (with no flow-control using the
title "foobar" in window #2) and will write a logfile ("screenlog.2") of
the telnet session.

===== See Also =====

  * [[:Window Management]]