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Unix: How to unsplit in screen

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 2026109280 views
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I'm trying to learn how to use , in unix so that I don't have to open up several ssh connections and terminal windows just because I want to do more than one thing at the same time on a machine. I have found the split command quite useful, but I have a problem I can't seem to figure out of... how do I unsplit?? I can split split using ^A S and switch between them using ^A ^I, but can't figure out how to remove a split...

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ctrl-a,X doesn't work on my distribution either. If you go into the help by pressing ctrl-a,?, you may notice that there is no command listed. (This is the case on my distribution, for some reason). Note that this means there is no keybinding for the command, but the command should still work using the "long form" that suggested. Don't worry, you can still remove the current split using "long form": ctrl-a:removeenter. In addition, you can bind the command to by putting this line in your ~/.scr…

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