How can I get currently attached screen session name?

Question

I'm writing a script which needs the name of the currently attached screen session's name if there's any.

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2479683/how-do-i-display-the-current-session-name-or-sockname-of-a-screen-session-in — Tamil Selvan C, May 31 '13 at 02:44

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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In short the $STY environment variable is what you are looking for.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered May 31 '13 at 04:49

Martin Mrazik

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The session name without ID can be obtained by `${STY#*.}`. – Scz Aug 10 '15 at 13:20

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