pty#

Persistent terminal sessions. Run a process, detach, reconnect later. From anywhere, locally and over SSH.

Uses @xterm/headless internally.

Install#

git clone https://github.com/myobie/pty.git
cd pty
npm install
npm link

Usage#

pty run myserver -- node server.js    # start a session and attach
pty run -d myserver -- node server.js # start in the background

pty list                              # show active sessions
pty attach myserver                   # reconnect
pty peek myserver                     # print current screen and exit
pty peek -f myserver                  # follow output read-only

pty restart myserver                  # restart an exited session
pty kill myserver                     # terminate a session

Detach with Ctrl+\. (Press Ctrl+\ twice to send it through to the process.)

Tab Completion#

brew install bash-completion  # required for bash; zsh works out of the box
npm run install-completions

License#

MIT