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    Yeah that saved it, thanks! I read the author's website how it works better than similar or older tools eg. for ncurses programs. Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 15:19
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    This is awesome; it should solve a friend's predicament of constantly losing her work by running it straight in ssh and then needing to get on a train. "Oops, forgot to use screen. Again." Commented Jan 16, 2015 at 5:13
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    +1 Although the accepted screen answer is of course ideal, it doesn't actually answer the question, which specifically requests a way to move a currently running process to screen or the like. Also see this answer: serverfault.com/a/284795 Commented Apr 18, 2015 at 21:15
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    Absolute live saver. Allowed me to re-attach to running apt dist-upgrade that was sitting on waiting for user confirmation. Commented Feb 10, 2019 at 12:24
  • Can be installed using APT on Debian based distros: sudo apt install reptyr. Commented Jul 9, 2020 at 10:46