Screen is useful for running a script or other long process as yourself if you are worried about disconnecting from your SSH session or want to do some other things in the shell as the process runs. You will need screen installed to do this. This will really save you a lot of time with Linux servers.
To start a screen session:
screen -R -D
To detatch from the screen session and continue working from the shell:
Ctrl + a + d
To view the status of your screen sessions:
screen -ls
To reattach an existing screen session:
screen -r <i>screen name</i>
You can get the screen name via the screen -ls command, the screen name should look something like 3003.pts-4.localhost.
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