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 [...]

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