Re: Setting up a screen session from a script?

[Jonathan del Strother]

I'm not following you.  In the bash script I use to set the  
environment up in the first place?  If I run that in a screen  
session, I just get detached from screen.  That's not very helpful...  
is it?



On 16 Mar 2006, at 23:53, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

> try screen -D -r
>
>
> On 3/16/06, Jonathan del Strother <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm trying to come up with a convenience-script to set up a Rails
> > editing environment using screen.  It looks something like this :
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > cd /Users/jon/Developer/Rails
> > screen -c /Users/jon/.screenrc_rails
> >
> > So, that just changes into my Rails directory, then launches screen
> > with the custom config file .screenrc_rails.  That file looks like  
> > this:
> >
> > source /Users/jon/.screenrc
> > screen  -t Server               0       script/server
> > screen  -t Console      1       script/console
> > screen                          2
> >
> > Which loads the usual .screenrc presets, then creates a few different
> > windows running server & console processes, and finally leaves me in
> > a blank window ready for me to do stuff.
> >
> >
> >
> > That works great if I run the command from a screen-less bash
> > session.  However, if I'm already running within a screen session,
> > "screen -c /Users/jon/.screenrc_rails" just spawns a single new
> > window and ignores the config file.
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions?  What's the best way of getting this script to
> > produce the right setup, regardless of the environment it's initially
> > run in?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jon
> >
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>
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> Anthony Ettinger
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