Re: how to start screen from .bashrc

[Peder Stray]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Henry Nelson wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 06:44:26PM +0200, Peder Stray wrote:
> > Remember that screen adds $STY to your environment, so you can test for
> > it:
> >
> > if [ -z "$STY" ]; then
> >     exec screen -dR
> > fi
> >
> > which would exec screen, attach to an already running or start a new
> > screen if you aren't already in one.  No problem there...
>
> Fantastic!  I've been looking for such a test.
>
> You wouldn't by chance have a translation for that into "csh",
> would you?  Also, with "csh", am I right to assume the test
> would go in ".login"?

Yeah, I guess .login would be the correct place for csh.  Long time since 
I used csh (or tcsh), but I guess something like:

if ("$STY" != "") then
   exec screen -dR
endif

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  Peder Stray