screen¶

List detached screen sessions¶

screen -ls | grep D

creates or attachs to screen¶

screen -r irc || screen -S irc irssi

Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session¶

screen -x `screen -ls | grep Detached | cut -c -10`

Start a file browser in the current directory¶

screen -d -m nautilus no-desktop `pwd`

connects to a serial console¶

screen /dev/ttyS0 9600

Runs a command without hangups.¶

screen -d -m command &

Share your terminal session (remotely or whatever)¶

screen -x

Share a screen session¶

screen -x <screen_id>

Reconnect to screen without disconnecting other sessions¶

screen -xR

Start screen with name and run command¶

screen -dmS "name_me" echo "hi"

connect to all screen instances running¶

screen -ls | grep pts | gawk '{ split($1, x, "."); print x[1] }' | while read i; do gnome-terminal -e screen\ -dx\ $i; done

create screencast (record text and audio simultaneously) using 'script' and 'arecord'¶

screencast() { arecord -R 1000 -f cd -t wav $1.wav & RECPID=$!; echo "Starting screencast in new shell. Exit subshell to quit."; script -t 2> $1.timing -a $1.session; kill $RECPID; }

Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session¶

screen -RR

Start screen in detached mode¶

screen -d -m [<command>]

Open screen on the previous command¶

screen !!

Share a 'screen'-session¶

screen -x

Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session¶

screen -D -R

Resume a detached screen session, resizing to fit the current terminal¶

screen -raAd

Start urxvt and do whatever is needed to open the screen session named "main"¶

screen -ls | grep main && urxvt -name screen -e screen -x main || urxvt -name screen -e screen -R -S main

Start screen, attach here an now to sessionname , be quiet¶

screen -R -D -S sessionname -q

Opens up a background session within an existing fron-end session¶

screen

use screen as a terminal emulator to connect to serial consoles¶

screen /dev/tty<device> 9600

starts a detached screen with name¶

screen -S [name] -d -m [<command>]

share a path when starting a new screen window¶

screen -X eval "chdir $PWD"

Connected to first screen session created¶

screen -x $(screen -ls | awk 'NR == 2 { print $1 }')

connects to a serial console¶

screen /dev/ttyS0 9600

Runs a command without hangups.¶

screen -d -m command &

Share your terminal session (remotely or whatever)¶

screen -x

Share a screen session¶

screen -x <screen_id>

Reconnect to screen without disconnecting other sessions¶

screen -xR

Start screen with name and run command¶

screen -dmS "name_me" echo "hi"

connect to all screen instances running¶

screen -ls | grep pts | gawk '{ split($1, x, "."); print x[1] }' | while read i; do gnome-terminal -e screen\ -dx\ $i; done

create screencast (record text and audio simultaneously) using 'script' and 'arecord'¶

screencast() { arecord -R 1000 -f cd -t wav $1.wav & RECPID=$!; echo "Starting screencast in new shell. Exit subshell to quit."; script -t 2> $1.timing -a $1.session; kill $RECPID; }

Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session¶

screen -RR

Start screen in detached mode¶

screen -d -m [<command>]

Open screen on the previous command¶

screen !!

Share a 'screen'-session¶

screen -x

Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session¶

screen -D -R

Resume a detached screen session, resizing to fit the current terminal¶

screen -raAd

Start urxvt and do whatever is needed to open the screen session named "main"¶

screen -ls | grep main && urxvt -name screen -e screen -x main || urxvt -name screen -e screen -R -S main

Start screen, attach here an now to sessionname , be quiet¶

screen -R -D -S sessionname -q

Opens up a background session within an existing fron-end session¶

screen

use screen as a terminal emulator to connect to serial consoles¶

screen /dev/tty<device> 9600

starts a detached screen with name¶

screen -S [name] -d -m [<command>]

share a path when starting a new screen window¶

screen -X eval "chdir $PWD"

Connected to first screen session created¶

screen -x $(screen -ls | awk 'NR == 2 { print $1 }')