Check out "man screen" and see if that does for you what you want.

Jay

On Thursday 08 August 2002 2:15 pm, linuxguy at geesper.com wrote:
> How can you take over a shell session?
>
> For example, if I were to be accessing vi or another editor from work,
> then go home and ssh into my work machine, can I take over the previous
> shell session and pick up where I left off?
> Is there something out there that can do this or a way to manuever this?
>
>
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