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+title: "tmux plus screen"
+date: 2020-08-17T14:19:16+02:00
+draft: false
+snippet_types:
+- screen
+- tmux
+---
+
+Recently I was sshed into my home pi server trying to sftp some big files from a remote server.
+Some of the transfers are huge, 30gb+. On our internet that will take a while. Not
+wanting to leave the shh terminal session open that whole time I used
+[screen](https://linux.die.net/man/1/screen) on the pi.
+Idea was to create a screen session start the transfer detach and comeback few hours later.
+Detaching was a bit tricky. <Ctrl\><a\> <d\> is the default detach command for both tmux running on my
+mac and screen running on the pi. So when I tried to detach from the screen session tmux would
+detach instead. 😡
+
+After messing with configs and some searching turns out if you press the tmux prefix key twice it
+sends it once to the child shell. So eventually I was able to detach from the screen session with:
+
+**<Ctrl\><a\> <Ctrl\><a\> <d\>**!!
+
+sources:
+
+- [stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8518815/how-to-send-commands-when-opening-a-tmux-session-inside-another-tmux-session)
+- [screen basics](https://www.howtogeek.com/662422/how-to-use-linuxs-screen-command)