Re: sending CRLF via screen -X stuff

[Micah Cowan]

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Richard Elliot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to send a remote command to an existing screen session:
> 
> while true; do screen -S 19268 -X stuff "signon"; sleep 1m; done
> 
> However, I need to send a new line (CRLF) after the command "signon".

Chances are you only need one of CR or LF, not both. Anyway, use octal
escapes: \012 and \015. (And yeah, I'd like to see a more complete set
of C-style escapes make their way in; low pri though.)

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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