Terminal cheatsheet

Some terminal commands that I use repeatedly but not enough that I don’t have to keep looking them up. Credit goes to friend and fellow OSU grad student Joseph Rossetti for many of these.

SSH login

ssh -l username name_of_remote_server

Transfer files between remote and local machines

# From me to remote server
scp my/directory/datafile.txt username@remote_server:/remote/directory

# From remote server to me
scp username@remote_server:/remote/directory/datafilet.txt my/directory/

Screen

Screen lets you open multiple windows in Unix. It also lets you run processes after you’ve logged off a remote server or lost connection for some reason.

Start new session

screen -S name_of_new_window

You don’t necessarily have to name a session but I think it’s helpful to.

List current screen sessions

screen -ls

Go to a particular screen session

screen -r name_of_session

Detach from a session

ctrl + a + d

Exit screen session

# While in the session
exit

# While detached from the session (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1509677/kill-detached-screen-session)
screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] quit