---
name: "screenie"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "screenie"
version: "20120406-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/screenie"
---

# screenie(1)

screen(1) session handler (wrapper)

## NAME

**screenie** – [screen(1)](/screen/1.md) session handler (wrapper)

## SYNOPSIS

**screenie** \[-h\|--help\] \[-j *session\_name* *job*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**screenie** is a small and lightweight **[screen(1)](/screen/1.md)** wrapper designed to simplify session selection on a system with multiple screen sessions. **screenie** provides simple interactive menu to select the existing screen session or to create a new one.

## OPTIONS

- **-h** \| **--help**

  show help

- **-j** *session\_name* *job*

  run screen jobs from command-line

## EXAMPLES

Run in interactive mode:

```
screenie
```

Create a new detached session:

```
screenie -j stat top
```

## LICENCE

This program is free software but comes **WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY**. You can redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

## AUTHOR

Written by Jiri Nemecek on February 6th, 2011. You can contact me via mail address nemecek\<dot\>jiri\<at\>gmail\<dot\>com . This program is enhanced Perl-reimplementation of **screenie** by Marc O. Gloor published on http://pubwww.fhzh.ch/~mgloor/screenie.html

## URL

Released on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/screenie

## BUGS

Please report them in project bugtracker.

## SEE ALSO

[screen(1)](/screen/1.md)