If you’re a big fan of irssi and you’re running it on a remote server over SSH and inside a screen, then I have a nice tip to share with you.

Just put the following line inside your .zshrc or .bashrc file:

alias rirssi='ssh user@your.server.com -t screen -dRUS irssi irssi'

This simple alias will allow you to:

• Connect to your remote SSH server
• Attach to your existing irssi screen named “irssi”
• If the screen doesn’t already exist:
  • create a new screen
  • start irssi inside it
  • attach the newly created session

Pretty cool isn’t it?