gnu-screen

Upon running screen with the -L flag, a file called 'screenlog.0' is created and all output written to it (which is great), but I will be running several screen sessions and I need to identify the logs with a unique number. Is it possible to change the log name? Eun You can edit your .screenrc file and add something like this logfile /tmp/myownlog Edit: already answered: https://serverfault.com/questions/248193/specifying-a-log-name-for-screen-output-without-relying-on-screenrc Nan Wang Probably the easiest way is to use the following: screen -L -Logfile log_filename your_command Juan Enciso

If I start a screen session with screen -dmS name , how would I access the command history of that screen session with a script? Using the ↑ , the last executed command appears, even in screen. screen doesn't maintain a history of the commands you type. Your shell may or may not keep a history. Since you appear to use bash , you can use the history command. screen does appear to have a crude approximation of a history search (it merely searches the scrollback buffer for a command line. See the screen man page under the "history" command (bound to C-a { by default). Nathan S. Watson-Haigh I use

I use the screen command for command-line multitasking in Linux and I set my scrollback buffer length to a very large value. Is there a key combination to clear the buffer for a certain tab when I don't want it sitting there anymore? Zsolt Botykai This thread has the following suggestion: In the window whose scrollback you want to delete, set the scrollback to zero, then return it to its normal value (in your case, 15000). If you want, you can bind this to a key: bind / eval "scrollback 0" "scrollback 15000" You can issue the scrollback 0 command from the session as well, after typing C-a : .

I am designing a script to launch a process inside a named screen session. as_user "screen -p 0 -S **$command** -X eval 'stuff \"wine LFS.exe /cfg=**$command**.cfg\"\015'" So bash myscript.sh start test will create a screen named test and run the test.cfg with the software. Now I want my script to access the specific screen session and do a CTRL + C to stop the running process so i can kill the screen session. Something like this: as_user "screen -p 0 -S **$command** **... kill the process with ctrl-c...**" as_user "screen -p 0 -S **$command** -X eval 'stuff \"exit\"\015'" I don't quite

I want to run R on a remote box under a local Emacs (I do not want to run Emacs on the remote box). I can run R on a remote host using TRAMP : (let ((default-directory "/user@remote:~")) (R)) and everything works fine except that when the connection to remote is lost, R dies. This is no good because this means that I have to re-load all the data into R after restarting it, which takes time. Is it possible to tell TRAMP to use a persistent terminal? ( GNU Screen or tmux or Mosh or dtach ) See also emacs-devel thread tramp:sshx:(screen|tmux) . Here is how to use ESS with R running in a remote

I know how to create multiple windows within a single screen session, at startup: But once I have them up and running, is there a way I can have my input be sent to all open windows, not just the one currently in focus? Corey Henderson I found a good tutorial here to do this: http://blog.cone.be/2009/11/24/gnu-screen-nethack-different-screen-windows-sending-commands-to-all-screen-windows/ From the post: Once you re used to the multiple windows, you might run into a situation where you want to send a same command to several of these open windows. Screen provides in the “at” command to do this.