Re: screen pid in hardstatus
Aaron Davies <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday, December 8, 2010, Todd Freed <tfreed-5HQwtzS045uJ1ku80POtVQC/[email protected]> wrote: > Screen Users, > > Something that comes up for me from time to time is I want to attach to currently running screen from elsewhere. The problem at this point is to determine the pid of that session, since I am always running several screens at once. > > What would be ideal it seems to be is to add the pid of the current screen session to my harstatus line, so I could just with a glance get that pid for attaching purposes. > > However from my perusal of the docs, it doesn't seem like the pid is one of the supported variables. > > Is there a way for me to do this? Maybe with a backtick involving $$ or ps or something in /proc? I'm not sure what context backticks are executed in tho.... -- Aaron Davies [email protected]