On Monday 20 September 2010 7:42:47 am david rene comba lareu wrote: > Hi, > > i usually use screen to run background process as > download/copy/upload/delete big files and that stuff, thought ssh, i was > wondering if there exist any feature that could print a message when the > last command finished on the main shell (ssh) or maybe also if i'm on > another screen instance. >
Hi, You could use the bell control character. A simplistic example: sleep 5 ; echo -e '\a' If you run that in a window and then switch to another window, after 5 seconds you should see a message like: Bell in window 6 Works even if you run the command remotely thru SSH. Regards, Gerald Young _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
