Re: query shell environment or hardstatus in other windows

[Kevin Van Workum]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Jostein Berntsen <address@hidden> wrote:

On 18.08.11,12:51, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Jostein Berntsen <address@hidden>wrote:
>
> > On 18.08.11,10:36, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to query the values of environment variable that are set in
> > the
> > > shells of other window in my screen session. For example, I would like to
> > > know the value of $HOSTNAME in window 0 while in window 1.
> > >
> > > Really, all I want is HOSTNAME, USER, and PWD which are all displayed on
> > my
> > > hardstatus line. So if I could just get the hardstatus line for each
> > window,
> > > that would be fine. The idea would be to create a screen-aware scp
> > command
> > > to copy files from one location to another.
> > >
> >
> > This should work:
> >
> > :eval "at 0" "echo '$HOSTNAME $USER $PWD'"
> >
>
> No, that just evaluates the variables in screen's environment. I want the
> variables in the operating shell of a given window, or just the status line
> of a window.
>
>

Would this work better?

:eval "at 0" "exec echo '$HOSTNAME $USER $PWD'"

No, that does basically the same thing. You can't really execute a command like this to get the values I want. It will always just return the values in screen's environment.

If I could somehow get the %h value in other windows, that would be great.

Jostein



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