Re: Setting session name when calling screen from script

2010-01-29 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:44:33PM -0800, Aaron Davies wrote: > On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0600, > >bradley.sch...@usbank.com wrote: > > > >>I'm calling screen from a script and want to set the session > >>name based on > >>run-time parame

Re: Setting session name when calling screen from script

2010-01-29 Thread Aaron Davies
On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0600, bradley.sch...@usbank.com wrote: I'm calling screen from a script and want to set the session name based on run-time parameters. So I'm using a command similar to: VARNAME=FOO screen -S $VARNAME Do

Re: Setting session name when calling screen from script

2010-01-29 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0600, bradley.sch...@usbank.com wrote: > I'm calling screen from a script and want to set the session name based on > run-time parameters. So I'm using a command similar to: > > VARNAME=FOO > screen -S $VARNAME Do you not need to still export VARNAME? -- Tho

Setting session name when calling screen from script

2010-01-29 Thread bradley . schrag
I'm calling screen from a script and want to set the session name based on run-time parameters. So I'm using a command similar to: VARNAME=FOO screen -S $VARNAME Screen seems to just skip the variable. Is there a way to persuade screen to expand $VARNAME to FOO? I'd rather not have to build a