Re: Sending the Ctrl-C keystroke into a screen window

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Anatoly Varakin wrote:

> Dear community,
>
> Would you please let me know how one could send programmatically the
> Ctrl-C keystroke, needed for breaking the current application, into
> a specific window of a particular screen session? The "screen -x
> <sessionName> -p <windowTitle> -X break" command, which could make
> this, as one might suppose, does not work really.

screen -X at "<sessionName>" stuff "C-v C-c"

Where you hit a literal control-v control-c.

First you'll see the ^V then ^C will replace it, on your shell prompt
(or in your editor), you should see something like:

$ screen -X at "test" stuff "^C"

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Michael Parson
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