A named screen session can be started by using the screen -S <sessionName> command.
If you start a simple screen session, by default, it will be named as something like 55355.pts-0.hostname.
No matter how the screen session has been started, it can be easily renamed at any time.
This short note shows how to rename a GNU screen session in Linux.
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Rename Screen Session
List the currently running screen sessions:
$ screen -ls
- sample output -
There are screens on:
55355.pts-0.hostname (04/12/2022 10:39:06 AM) (Detached)
55309.pts-0.hostname (04/12/2022 10:38:48 AM) (Detached)
2 Sockets in /run/screen/S-username.
To rename the screen session, execute:
$ screen -S <PID>.<sessionName> -X sessionname <newSessionName>
- example -
$ screen -S 55355.pts-0.hostname -X sessionname INC-18234
Run the command below once again to ensure that the screen session has been renamed:
$ screen -ls There are screens on: 55355.INC-18234 (04/12/2022 10:39:07 AM) (Detached) 55309.pts-0.hostname (04/12/2022 10:38:49 AM) (Detached) 2 Sockets in /run/screen/S-username.
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