Re: how to send commands to running screen sessions

[Andy Harrison]

On 2/15/07, Henrique Niwa <address@hidden> wrote:

hi,
Sometime ago i saw an email from the list explaining
how to send commands to matching windows.
like, for windows named sh send command xyz
i accomplished some results using the stuff command,
but i could not replicate the enter key, nor send it
to multiple windows matching some pattern.
Does anybody knows the correct syntax of the command?

You can also use the -X param.  So if I had two different instances of screen running, one of them had sessionname set to FooScreen, I would send a command like:

screen -S FooScreen -X select 1

This would cause screen 1 to be selected within the FooScreen instance.

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Andy Harrison