Re: multi-window searching, newer screen versions

[Artur Skonecki]

#!/bin/sh
# screen_hardcopy.sh
# print window scrollbacks from all GNU Screen sessions
# it breaks when session names contain spaces *sigh*

SCREENDIR=/tmp/screens/S-$USER
HARDCOPYDIR=/tmp/screen-hardcopy-$USER

mkdir -p $HARDCOPYDIR

for session in $SCREENDIR/*
do
    session=$(basename "$session")
    mkdir -p "$HARDCOPYDIR/$session"
    screen -S "$session" -X eval "hardcopydir '$HARDCOPYDIR/$session'" "at '\#' 
hardcopy -h"
done

for session in $SCREENDIR/*
do
    session="$(basename "$session")"
    for hardcopy in $HARDCOPYDIR/$session/*
    do
        winnum=$(echo "$(basename $hardcopy)" | cut -d '.' -f 2)
        sed "s/.*/$session : $winnum &/" "$hardcopy"
        rm "$hardcopy"
    done
    rmdir "$HARDCOPYDIR/$session"
done

rmdir "$HARDCOPYDIR"


On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Edward Peschko wrote:

> All,
>
> I see that - although there is a LOT of newer development on screen,
> that the main version of screen itself is stuck at 4.0.3 from 2008.
>
> Is there a reason for this? Can it be rectified?
>
> Ed
>
> (btw -
>    As far as a killer feature goes to help advance the project, the
> ONE THING missing from screen itself is multi-window searching.
>
>    I get ten screen sessions open, things get chaotic, and I need to
> then find a string in any one of them. It would be *beautiful* to
> simply do a search and have that search go through each one of the
> buffers, starting with the current one and when it was done with that
> one, go to the previous, and the one before that, and so on.
>
> Is this implemented in one of the 'non-official' screen versions? How
> about screen-session?
> )