Re: screen pid in hardstatus

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I ended up doing a backtick command 
with both parameters set to zero, calling a script which itself simply 
calls getppid (get parent pid) and writes it to stdout

-Todd

On 12/11/2010 10:22 PM, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Todd Freed <tfreed-5HQwtzS045uJ1ku80POtVQC/[email protected]
> <mailto: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.
>
>
> If you are using the development version
> (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git), you can use "%p" or "$PID".
>
> Cheers.
> Sadrul
>
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