Question

I have many screen sessions open and I cannot recognize which one is which.

I start screen with:

# screen -d -m -t "myscreen" ./myscript.sh

but screen -ls just shows this:

# screen -ls
There are screens on:
    1167..lh18758   (04/13/2012 09:20:49 PM)        (Detached)
    32040..lh18758  (04/13/2012 09:20:05 PM)        (Detached)
    27775..lh18758  (04/13/2012 09:18:27 PM)        (Detached)
    27751..lh18758  (04/13/2012 09:18:27 PM)        (Detached)
    26604..lh18758  (04/13/2012 09:18:01 PM)        (Detached)
    6879..lh18758   (04/13/2012 09:10:28 PM)        (Detached)
    6347..lh18758   (04/13/2012 09:10:15 PM)        (Detached)
    6371..lh18758   (04/13/2012 09:10:15 PM)        (Detached)

It is possible to set names to screen session to not see the 6371..lh18758 but a title or name?

Answer 1

You can specify names when you create the sessions.

From the manpage:

-S sessionname

When creating a new session, this option can be used to specify a meaningful name for the session. This name identifies the
session for “screen -list” and “screen -r” actions. It substitutes the
default
[tty.host] suffix.

So you would make the command line

$ screen -d -m -t "myscreen" -S "MeaningfulName" ./myscript.sh