ISELECT(1)

💖 ISELECT(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is screen-ir — the little script that lets you Interactively Reattach to GNU Screen sessions. yes, THE iselect manual page, and it's by Axel Beckert. we're doing this. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

screen-ir — Interactively Reattach to GNU Screen sessions

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

screen-ir [additional screen options …]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, screen-ir uses iselect(1) to interactively reattach to running screen sessions. that's the whole vibe. you get a cute little menu, you pick your session, boom, you're back in. main character energy fr. 👑

now, the important bit, don't skip this:

• want to reattach to screen sessions that are already attached? use the screen option -d or -D. yes, you have to say it out loud to the script.
• want to attach to screen sessions without detaching them? use the screen option -x. sharing is caring, bestie. 💅

🎀 FILES 🎀

screen-ir sources ~/.screen-irrc if it exists. if it doesn't exist, no drama, it just moves on. and it recognizes two variables in there:

• SCREEN_OPTIONS — whatever you put in here gets handed to screen(1) as command-line options. the default is -r. use e.g. -rd if you always want to reattach to already attached screen sessions, because apparently you love that life. 😌
• ISELECT_OPTIONS — whatever you put in here gets handed to iselect(1) as command-line options. the default is empty. use e.g. -f if you always want to see the interactive selection, even if there's only one screen session running — like, i.e. you have no choice. sometimes you just wanna see the menu anyway, and honestly? valid. ✨

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

screen(1), iselect(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💅✨ this was ossp-iselect 1.4.2, dated November 17, 2024 — go forth and reattach your sessions, no cap 🧚💖