I have a Minecraft server that I start over ssh. I use screen so it keeps running

Spigot allows you to set a start script so that if the server stops it can start again automatically.

I currently have the following code for my spigot start command (this is inside a shell file that spigot runs)

#!/bin/sh
screen -s minecraft -x ~/path/to/server/start.sh

then in my start.sh file I have the following

#!/bin/sh
java -Xmx1500m -jar server.jar -nogui

before I started with the restart I would ssh into the computer, start screen then run the start.sh file. But now I need a file that will start screen and run the start.sh file

How do I do this?

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-X Execute <cmd> as a screen command in the specified session.
-x Attach to a not detached screen. (Multi display mode).

what i did was see the -X flag and made 2 mistakes the first was to use lowercase x not an uppercase X

the second was that you don't need the -X flag, and you can just use

screen -s minecraft ~/path/to/the/start.sh

and give the command or file as an argument without the flag

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