In case you've gotten used to just using screen on your local machine as I have, as a handy way to manage multiple "ascii desktops":
A useful trick is to ssh to a remote machine and start a screen session on the remote machine. Then you can start long-running jobs on the remote machine, detach, turn your local machine off, come back later, and ssh and re-attach to check on progress.
I assume tmux and similar screen-like programs can all do this.
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In case you've gotten used to just using screen on your local machine as I have, as a handy way to manage multiple "ascii desktops":
A useful trick is to ssh to a remote machine and start a screen session on the remote machine. Then you can start long-running jobs on the remote machine, detach, turn your local machine off, come back later, and ssh and re-attach to check on progress.
I assume tmux and similar screen-like programs can all do this.
tmux a(ttach) is the same as screen -r