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In managing Linux servers or local machines, one common challenge is handling processes that have been started in one terminal and needing them to be controlled from another session. This might happen when you accidentally close a terminal or disconnect from an SSH session, leaving a vital process running detached. This guide explores how to use reptyr, a handy utility tool, to reattach these detached processes to a new terminal. A: reptyr is a utility in Linux that allows you to take an already running process and attach it to a new terminal. It's particularly useful if you started a long-running process in one SSH or terminal session and need to move it to another after disconnecting or accidentally closing the original session.