Re: Send break to screen

[Colin Richardson]

@Jostein Berntsen

You were so close. I started playing around with the "stuff" command you recommended and started to see a pattern forming. I eventually came to the idea of removed the single quotes around your suggestion 'stuff " "' and just used -X stuff "^C" and it worked. 

Thank you. I got it working now with -X stuff "^C"

No need to mess around with PID and process killing now. 

Thank you everyone for your help.

- Colin

On 26 September 2016 at 18:11, Jostein Berntsen <address@hidden> wrote:

On 26.09.16,14:17, Colin Richardson wrote:

I am attempting to break a nodejs application that is running in a detached
screen. (From another screen nodejs application).

But I am falling over at the first hurdle in just trying to send a break
command in the first place.

I am doing ` screen -S ser02 -X "^C" `
But when I do ` screen -r ser02 ` node is still running.
I tried a few other things such as ` ^A b ` thinking it would be using the
internal screen commands.

Can you check if this works?
screen -S ser02 -X 'stuff " "'


Jostein

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