gnu-screen

This question was migrated from Super User because it can be answered on Stack Overflow. Migrated 8 years ago . Learn more . I'm on the lookout for a method to control programs in a Windows environment. I would prefer it to be a bit similar to the Linux software " screen ". The reason of my search is that I need to start a program (on Windows) with an identifier, so I later would be able to close that specific program, without closing anything else - even though the actual program (.exe file) is running multiple times. So is there anyway I can "name" it? I'm using the following on Linux now: $

I have made a bash file which launches another bash file in a detached screen with a unique name, I need to ensure that only one instance of that internal bash file is running at any one point in time. To do this, I want to make the parent bash file check to see if the screen by that name exists before attempting to create it. Is there a method to do this? You can grep the output of screen -list for the name of the session you are checking for: if ! screen -list | grep -q "myscreen"; then # run bash script fi You can query the screen 'select' command for a particular session; the shell result

I would like to know how to execute a command inside a screen session. i searched and I found this : screen -S nameofscreen -X stuff "command" When I type this, the command is typed inside the screen but it is not executed. So my queston is how to press enter using this command. In the bash shell you can use ctrl-V to explicitly put non-printable characters into a string. So try ctrl-V ctrl-L ctrl-V ctrl-M at the end of your command just before the " . In bash, you can use \n in the $'...' construct: screen -S nameofscreen -X stuff $'command\n' I'd do something like this: screen -S sessionName

Is there a way to automatically have each window change its name to the name of the last program you ran from that window? This would be more convenient than having to rename the windows manually. Yes, you can use shelltitle to do this. Assuming you use bash, the following should work. Add this to your .screenrc : shelltitle "$ |bash" where the "$ " should match whatever is at the end of your prompt string ($PS1) and "bash" is the default title. Then add a null title escape sequence to the beginning of your prompt string: export PS1='\[\033k\033\\\]'$PS1 which should go in your .profile or

Suddenly, both my screen/tmux started changing my windows' names after every command. They keep changing the name to the value of $PROMPT_COMMAND on every single action on the terminal, even after manually renaming them (by Ctrl+A A on screen or Ctrl+B on tmux). On tmux I already tried to change the tmux.conf settings to disable window auto renaming off, but seems that it was ignored. I am using bash without the standard /etc/bashrc configuration file. My distro is Fedora 18. Check whether your PS1 (plus PS2 , PS3 or PS4 if those are set) is changing the title : printf %q "$PS1" | grep -F '\

I work on a NetBSD system through an ssh connection from my Mac and I want to use the screen utility so that I can start processes and come back to them after my terminal connection has been interrupted. When I type screen I get the error message: Cannot find termcap entry for 'xterm-256color' After looking through forum posts, I thought it had something to do with termcap on the remote machine, but that appears not to be the case; I can initiate screen with no errors from an ssh session from another computer, one to which I don't generally have access. This suggests that I need to configure