Spawning commands inside interactive shells in new windows in a scriptable fashion

[László Monda]

Hi List,

I've already sent this mail to the list some days ago, but seeing the
archives it seems to me that it hasn't arrived, so I resend it this
time.

I want to open new windows that run specific commands within interactive
shells in a scriptable fashion.

Let's say I want to run `du --max-depth=1 /` in a new screen window
within an interactive shell and I want to do it from a script.

Let's consider the following:

$ screen screen bash -i -c du --max-depth=1 /

I'd expect this to work, but it doesn't.

On the other hand it works:

$ screen screen bash -i -c read

But bash closes right after pressing enter.  I guess bash has trouble
handling -i and -c together and it behaves non-interactively in this
case.

Also, the status line showing the windows doesn't get updated, only
after I explicitly change window.

I'd really appreciate your insights.

Thanks in advance!
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Laci  <http://monda.hu>

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