Re: Making screen look for a pattern to detect "activity"

[Joe Zbiciak]

One way might be to pipe the program's output through 'grep.'  If you want to 
see the full output also, you could do something hackish like:

mknod foo p
program | tee foo
screen grep pattern foo

Then set screen's activity monitor on the newly opened screen containing the 
grep output.

--Joe
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Hari Bhaskaran <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:13:52 PM
Subject: Making screen look for a pattern to detect "activity"

Hi,

I want to make screen look for a certain configurable pattern in the 
output to detect "activity" (for the montoring feature
Cntrl-a M thingy). I am running a custom program which would print a 
certain pattern that I want to watch for, not
necessarily a strict "silence" or "activity"- which currently means any 
output.

Is there a way to achieve this in screen? Any help is appreciated

-- 
Hari


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