you can also use the following for a bit more control over a program running in a screen session
screen -S foo -X select [windowid] screen -S foo -X stuff 'emacs -nw somefile^M' where ^M is entered by typing ctrl-v ctrl-m David On 12/02/2010, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <ima...@gmail.com> wrote: > * Faheem Mitha had this to say on [12 Feb 2010, 08:22:25 -0500]: >> >> Hi, >> >>> From the screen documentation, it looks like something similar to the >> following should work, but it doesn't. If it is not already clear from >> the commands below, I want to send an arbitrary command to run in a >> detached screen instance. Any recipe that works would be appreciated. >> Please CC me on any reply. >> >> Regards, Faheem >> >> ********************************************************************* >> >> # create detached foo screen instance >> fah...@merlin:~$ screen -dmS foo >> fah...@merlin:~$ screen -ls >> There is a screen on: >> 30938.foo (02/12/2010 06:39:33 PM) (Detached) >> 1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-faheem. >> >> fah...@merlin:~$ screen -S foo -X emacs -nw somefile >> fah...@merlin:~$ screen -r foo >> # attaching to the foo screen session but nothing there > > You can run screen-commands with 'X', and 'emacs' is not a screen > command! You would want something like the following instead: > > screen -S foo -X screen emacs -nw somefile > > Cheers, > Sadrul > > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
