[linux] How to list running screen sessions?

I have a bunch of servers, on which I run experiments using screen. The procedure is the following :

1. ssh to server XXX
2. launch screen
3. start experiments in a few tabs
4. detach screen
5. disconnect from the server

While the experiments are running, I can easily find on which servers they are by sshing to all servers and listing my running processes (using top or ps).

However, once the experiments are finished, how could I find on which servers I have a screen session opened (so that I can have a look at the output, relaunch them, etc.) ?

PS: my experiments do print their output to files, too... but this is not the point of my question.

ps x | grep SCREEN

to see what is that screen running in case you used the command

screen -A -m -d php make_something.php

The command screen -list may be what you want.

See the man

Multiple folks have already pointed that

$ screen -ls

would list the screen sessions.

Here is another trick that may be useful to you.

If you add the following command as a last line in your .bashrc file on server xxx, then it will automatically reconnect to your screen session on login.

screen -d -r

Hope you find it useful.

So you're using screen to keep the experiments running in the background, or what? If so, why not just start it in the background?

./experiment &

And if you're asking how to get notification the job i done, how about stringing the experiment together with a mail command?

./experiment && echo "the deed is done" | mail youruser@yourlocalworkstation -s "job on server $HOSTNAME is done"

In most cases a screen -RRx $username/ will suffice :)

If you still want to list all screens then put the following script in your path and call it screen or whatever you like:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$1" != "-ls-all" ]]; then
    exec /usr/bin/screen "$@"
else
    shopt -s nullglob
    screens=(/var/run/screen/S-*/*)
    if (( ${#screens[@]} == 0 )); then
        echo "no screen session found in /var/run/screen"
    else
        echo "${screens[@]#*S-}"
    fi
fi

It will behave exactly like screen except for showing all screen sessions, when giving the option -ls-all as first parameter.

 For windows system

 Open putty 
 then login in server

If you want to see screen in Console then you have to write command

 Screen -ls

if you have to access the screen then you have to use below command

 screen -x screen id

Write PWD in command line to check at which folder you are currently

I'm not really sure of your question, but if all you really want is list currently opened screen session, try:

screen -ls

While joshperry's answer is correct, I find very annoying that it does not tell you the screen name (the one you set with -t option), that is actually what you use to identify a session. (not his fault, of course, that's a screen's flaw)

That's why I instead use a script such as this: ps auxw|grep -i screen|grep -v grep