Re: "screen -d -m" but with many windows instead of sessions

[Gregory A. Smith]

Samuel Skånberg wrote:

> What I would like is to have _one_ session but with multiple 
> _windows_. It's much easier to manage.

Hi Samuel,

I agree. I do the same thing to keep track of a bunch of log tails in a 
single screen. The way to do it is create a config file that looks 
something like this:

------------------ begin config.rc
source ~/.screenrc   # get default settings
screen 0 program0
screen 1 program1
screen 2 program2
------------------ end config.rc

and then when you launch screen, tack on '-c config.rc' to load this 
config file.

For your situation, it's not hard to imagine a script that would create 
a config file in /tmp and then source it. Something like...

------------------ begin screen.sh
#!/bin/sh
conf=/tmp/screen-$PPID.rc
touch $conf
echo source ~/.screenrc >> $conf
n=0
for i in *.torrent; do
   echo screen $n btdownloadcurses $i >> $conf
   let n++
done
screen -c $conf
rm $conf
------------------ end screen.sh

Happy screening,
Greg