Re: screen -X

[Micah Cowan]

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Jim Lloyd wrote:
> The -X option seems like it's intended for this purpose, but it seems
> to be a no-op. The man page says "Note that this command doesn't work
> if the session is password protected." To my knowledge the session is
> not password protected, but perhaps I am misunderstanding this.

It depends on the command: some of them require a window to have been
selected at some point. The current dev sources have fixed this I
believe, but apparently a workaround is to add "-p 0" to your invocation.

What are you currently attempting to do? Note that -X takes screen
commands, not shell commands. If you want to tell screen to type
something into a window, use the stuff command (you'll need octal
escapes such as \012 to send newlines).

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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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