Re: calendar

[gesmith]

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Hi Kai

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Kai Hendry wrote:

> I want to run calendar when I start a new screen. I don't want to start
> it if there already a screen running on the system.
> 
> Hmm, it's not that easy:
> scrooge-15:500$ screen calendar
> [screen is terminating]
> 
> 
> I know I should typically do this in .bashrc, but I do not want it to
> run everytime I start a shell.
> 
> bsdmainutils: /usr/bin/calendar
> 
> I launch screen like so:
> http://svn.natalian.org/home/.xsession
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
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You could make a function in your bashrc instead.

Example:
cal_screen()
{
    ps u | grep calendar | grep -v grep>/dev/null
    if  [ "$?" = 0 ]
    then
        screen -dmS cal calendar
    fi
} 

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