LXer: How to use the screen command on Linux to keep your remote task running when the connection drops

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A lot of Linux users carry out a long running task on a remote destination without taking into account the possibility that the connection might break. In such situations, notwithstanding financial losses for large and small corporations, they will lose their work as well as their time since when they try to reconnect again, the remote task is no longer running.

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