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Re: How to test if screen has a specified window?


From: Sadrul Habib Chowdhury
Subject: Re: How to test if screen has a specified window?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:44:15 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

* Yue Wu had this to say on [11 Feb 2010, 09:45:12 +0800]:
> Hi list,
> 
> I want do some script with screen, but I don't know how to know if screen has
> a window titled with "foo", if has, then do some thing, otherwise, do other
> thing, is it possible in a sh script?

In the latest git version, you can do something like the following:

        screen -p foo -Q echo ""

If the window 'foo' does not exist, then it will terminate with a
non-zero status. More at:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2010-02/msg00031.html

Sadrul





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