I would try doing
chdir build
screen -t build tmux
instead of doing `screen cd build` - the error message is correct: cd is
not a program you can run, it's typically built in to the shell. It isn't
clear to me what you are trying to do with the final step, I haven't ever
used tmux inside screen.
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 9:25 AM Stdcerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to write a script that uses screen to automatically create
> a few windows within which particular commands will be executed. Think
> of it like an IDE on the shell. Now I know that I can create windows and
> applications launched within them. Now, I would like to launch the
> following commands in window's given descriptive names:
>
> chdir ~/src/projectA
> * vim
> * git pull
> * cd build/
> * cd build/ && tmux
>
> The intention is to launch the session from a script with:
>
> /usr/bin/screen -dmS name -c /home/user/scripts/.screenrc_name
>
> Where `~/scripts/.screenrc_name` looks like:
>
> #bind keys to move between regions
> bind j focus down
> bind k focus up
> bind l focus right
> bind h focus left
> # don't display the copyright page
> startup_message off
>
> # increase scrollback buffer size
> defscrollback 10000
>
> # don't kill window after the process die
> zombie "^["
>
> # create windows
> chdir ~/src/scaper
> screen -t code vim &
> screen -t git git pull &
> screen -t build cd build/ &
> screen -t exec cd build/ tmux
>
> When I connect to the session with `screen -r name`, I get into the
> `exec` window correctly, but it's stuck and it says `Cannot exec `cd`:
> No such file or directory`. And I'm getting the following:
>
> $ which cd
> which: no cd in
> (/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin)
>
>
> [ron@OldNotebook scripts]$ type cd
> cd is a shell builtin
>
> I was wondering how I best address this issue?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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