On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:27:55PM -0400, Andy Harrison wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was wondering about this behavior from screen. When I run this > script, it shows me that screen always thinks it is on window 0, even > when it has executed the 'other' command and I'm now looking at the > window I was previously using. Is this expected behavior? If so, is > there a way to make it behave so that screen will keep track of what > the currently active window actually is? > > > #!/bin/sh > > screen -X echo 'number is...' > sleep 3 > screen -X number # shows "This is window 0..." > [...]
Are these sleeps supposed to avoid executing the commands in the wrong order? Would it be better to simply do a single -X eval: screen -X eval 'echo "number is..."' number _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
