Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session

screen -RR

-RR option is used to resume the first appropriate detached screen session

By: jlaunay

2012-03-01 15:27:44

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Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session

man screen: "-D -R Attach here and now. In detail this means: If a session is running, then reattach. If necessary detach and logout remotely first. If it was not running create it and notify the user. This is the author?s favorite."
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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screen -D -R

marek158 · 2012-03-01 15:28:21 9
Automatically find and re-attach to a detached screen session

I alias this as "tach": alias tach='screen -x `screen -ls | grep Detached | cut -c -10`' If you have several detached sessions it will just grab the first one. If you're running nested screens you can open new outer windows and run tach repeatedly to grab all the detached sessions into that one. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
<sample output doesn't make sense--screen session gets re-attached>
```
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screen -x `screen -ls | grep Detached | cut -c -10`

peter4512 · 2012-03-01 14:13:09 8

What Others Think

and if you resume the first session if more than one session is available you can even use screen -RR

jlaunay · 658 weeks and 4 days ago

Thanks for this

peter4512 · 621 weeks and 6 days ago

rahimhh21 · 111 weeks and 3 days ago

tewakdeui · 102 weeks and 4 days ago

Perfecthomepugs · 102 weeks and 1 day ago

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yeneba6574 · 17 weeks and 4 days ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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