"screen" help needed

[rburke]

Hello all,

Has anyone ever used the -X option on the "screen" command? According to the man page you should be able to pass commands into a screen using the -X option and specififying the screen with -S <name>. However I've been unable to figure out how to make this work. Has anyone ever got this to work and if so could you provide me with some instructions and/or a quick example of some kind?

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[chipperMDW]

My [tt]screen[/tt] seems to have a different meaning for the [tt]-S[/tt] option, so I can't help much with that part.


Here's an example of using the [tt]-X[/tt] option without specifying the session:

tty1

$ screen
$ echo This is screen 0
[COLOR=red]This is screen 0[/color]

tty2

$ screen -X 'screen'

Here, "screen" is the [tt]screen[/tt] command to create a new screen running a shell, then switch to it; it's equivalent to [tt]C-a C-c[/tt]. The list of commands' names is in the man page.

tty1 again

$ echo This is screen 1
[COLOR=red]This is screen 1[/color]

 

[ZaSter]

Per the man page, the -X command does not work if the session is password protected.