Re: Getting screen size into the env?

[Aaron Davies]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Aaron Davies wrote:
>> How do I get the screen size env vars set properly? Screen appears to
>> be populating TERMCAP for me (correctly), as it's not defined when
>> outside of screen, but does exist inside.
>
> There's nothing that ever sets env vars to the screen size.
>
> However, if you use bash, it will set _shell_ variables, COLUMNS and
> LINES, automatically. This isn't something that screen does, but bash.
> Bash does _not_ export these by default, however; you'll need to do
>
>  $ export COLUMNS LINES
>
> to get them into the environment. Of course, if you're not running bash,
> you may not have them at all; in which case you may need to parse them
> out of the screen-supplied TERMCAP (which, unlike the bash vars, can't
> be kept up-to-date when the window size changes).

Hmm, OK. I am running bash, at least according to /etc/passwd, though
$SHELL seems to be "sh". In any case, zsh seems to do it correctly on
my setup, and I prefer zsh anyway.
-- 
Aaron Davies
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