A little tip if you’re using IRSSI and screen

This is a small shellscript I wrote, to ease starting irssi on my VPS:

#!/bin/sh
if screen -ls | grep -q IRC ; then
msn_pid=$(screen -ls | grep IRC | cut -f1 -d. | sed 's/\t//')
screen -r -d $msn_pid.IRC
else
screen -S IRC irssi
fi

If irssi is already running in screen, it resumes the session, otherwise it will start a new screen session. Of course, this could be used for lots of things, folding@home for example, but I primarily use it for irc’ing.

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Tags: bash, bitesized, debian, hack, irc, linux, shellscript, xubuntu