The easiest way to display the sessionname is C-a : sessionname (without specifying a name after sessionname) See the “CUSTOMIZATION” section in man screen
You create a screen with a name and in detached mode: screen -S “mylittlescreen” -d -m Then you send the command to be executed on your screen: screen -r “mylittlescreen” -X stuff $’ls\n’ The stuff command is to send keystrokes inside the screen. The $ before the string command is to make the shell parse … Read more
I’ve been using Screen for over 10 years and probably use less than half the features. So it’s definitely not necessary to learn all its features right away (and I wouldn’t recommend trying). My day-to-day commands are: ^A ^W – window list, where am I ^A ^C – create new window ^A space – next … Read more