Re: How to automatically attach to session, create new window and run a program?

[Eugene Dzhurinsky]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 04:02:50PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 02:47:41PM +0300, Eugeny N Dzhurinsky wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I have somelike a strange requirement - I would like to create a script, 
> > which
> > will check if screen is already running, if so - open in in terminal (rxvt 
> > for
> > instance) and reattach to the screen session, and create new window then run
> > certain program in it. If there are no screen running, then create one and
> > invoke a program (the most simplest thing).
> 
> Possibly something like
> "screen -xRR sesname -X 'screen newprogram'".

That doesn't work for me for some reason?
I started screen with "screen -S current rtorrent"

then I invoked: screen -xRR current -X 'screen mutt'

and nothing happens, but in existign screen the error appears: 
-X: unknown command 'screen mutt'

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Eugene N Dzhurinsky

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