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Re: How to create a set a screen windows from a shell script


From: Thomas Köhler
Subject: Re: How to create a set a screen windows from a shell script
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 06:03:16 +0200
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Hi,

Bob Bawn wrote:
> address@hidden cluster]$ xargs -l1 -t screen < cmds
> screen less /etc/inittab
> Must be connected to a terminal.
> screen less /etc/fstab
> Must be connected to a terminal.
> address@hidden cluster]$
> 
> Should I be using expect or something that talks to ptys?

You can try "-X". This works for me:

~> xargs -l1 -t screen -X screen < cmds
screen -X screen less /etc/inittab
screen -X screen less /etc/fstab

> Is there a better way to start a set of processes, one per screen window?

You could always ignore any running screen and do something like
this:
~> cat > cmds
screen less /etc/fstab
screen less /etc/inittab
~> screen -m -c cmds


Ciao,
Thomas

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