Today I stumble upon an article regarding SSH on Oracle’s blogs.
One interesting feature I did not know is the SSH escape character ‘~’. So many times I had to open another terminal just to do one command locally before returning to the SSH session. Now this is over, just type ~^Z (a tilde followed by Ctrl-Z). Example
malmur :: ~ » uname -a FreeBSD malmur 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: [...] malmur :: ~ » ssh 192.168.78.10 unbreakable :: ~ » uname -a Linux unbreakable.linux 2.6.39-200.29.1.el6uek.x86_64 #1 [...] unbreakable :: ~ » ~^Z [suspend ssh] [1] + 2540 suspended ssh 192.168.78.10 malmur :: ~ » fg [1] + 2540 continued ssh 192.168.78.10 unbreakable :: ~ »