Re: multi-window searching, newer screen versions

On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Aaron Davies wrote:
> third is that this screen interprets "hardcopy -h" as "write a hardcopy of the current screen (without scrollback) to a file named "-h" (relative to screen's pwd). i'm not entirely sure how to fix that one,

If it is indeed the case, replacing hardcopydir with chdir command
should suffice.

> as i'm not sure how to get the number of windows in a screen back out to the script. (otherwise the brute-force way would be to iterate over them, generating the name variations myself.)

Are you trying to get the total number of windows in a session?
You could consider counting the number of hardcopy files as an
unreliable solution (Screen may be late with some of the files).