Re: query shell environment or hardstatus in other windows

On 18.08.11,10:36, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to query the values of environment variable that are set in the
> shells of other window in my screen session. For example, I would like to
> know the value of $HOSTNAME in window 0 while in window 1.
> 
> Really, all I want is HOSTNAME, USER, and PWD which are all displayed on my
> hardstatus line. So if I could just get the hardstatus line for each window,
> that would be fine. The idea would be to create a screen-aware scp command
> to copy files from one location to another.
> 

This should work:

:eval "at 0" "echo '$HOSTNAME $USER $PWD'"


Jostein