Re: sending an arbitary command to a detached session

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

* David Collins had this to say on [12 Feb 2010, 21:05:15 +0000]:
> you can also use the following for a bit more control over a program
> running in a screen session
> 
> screen -S foo -X select [windowid]
> screen -S foo -X stuff 'emacs -nw somefile^M'

You can actually avoid the first command by using the -p flag in the
second.

Sadrul

> where ^M is entered by typing ctrl-v ctrl-m
> 
> David
> 
> On 12/02/2010, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * Faheem Mitha had this to say on [12 Feb 2010, 08:22:25 -0500]:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> From the screen documentation, it looks like something similar to the
> >> following should work, but it doesn't. If it is not already clear from
> >> the commands below, I want to send an arbitrary command to run in a
> >> detached screen instance. Any recipe that works would be appreciated.
> >> Please CC me on any reply.
> >>
> >>                                                       Regards, Faheem
> >>
> >> *********************************************************************
> >>
> >> # create detached foo screen instance
> >> address@hidden:~$ screen -dmS foo
> >> address@hidden:~$ screen -ls
> >> There is a screen on:
> >>         30938.foo       (02/12/2010 06:39:33 PM)        (Detached)
> >> 1 Socket in /var/run/screen/S-faheem.
> >>
> >> address@hidden:~$ screen -S foo -X emacs -nw somefile
> >> address@hidden:~$ screen -r foo
> >> # attaching to the foo screen session but nothing there
> >
> > You can run screen-commands with 'X', and 'emacs' is not a screen
> > command! You would want something like the following instead:
> >
> >     screen -S foo -X screen emacs -nw somefile
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sadrul
> >
> >
> >
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