Re: How can I stuff in a new window of an existing screen session?

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, George wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would really appreciate your help with this.
>
> Suppose that I start a session like so:
> $screen -dmS mysession
>
> I would like a command that, at the same time:
> 1. Will create a new window named "newwindow" inside mysession
> 2. Will stuff "command" inside that new window
>
> Any ideas how to do that?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
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> PS. What I have tried and does not work:
>
> $screen -S mysession -X stuff "command"
> That will stuff "command" inside the *prexisting* window inside
> mysession, but I would like a new window..

When you use "stuff" it helps to specify which window you want it to go
in.  I would recommend naming the window, then using that as the target:

This is technically two commands, but one command line:

screen -t "test" ; screen -X at "test" stuff "echo test^V^M"

The first one creates a new screen window called 'test'.  The second
one tells screen to stuff the string "echo test<return>" to the window
named "test".

You can put your session name stuff in there too.

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Michael Parson
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