Re: Passing string into stdin of screen

2010-12-23 Thread Michael Kelleher
To pass a command to a screen session to be intrepreted from stdin use the following: screen -X stuff "echo hello^M" However make sure to generate the ^M by pressing Ctrl-V Enter. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:35 PM, wcjh wrote: > > I'm using 'screen' as a terminal emulator to communicate to a s

Passing string into stdin of screen

2010-12-23 Thread wcjh
I'm using 'screen' as a terminal emulator to communicate to a serial device. However, I would like to script communication with this device. Does anyone know how I can either: 1. start a screen terminal with a command line argument that will be interpreted as stdin, or 2. Pass a string into stdin