Re: Sending commands to shell

Doing some poking about using the suggestions of oneperson who responded 
before, I used:

c-a:exec myscript

 	It does exactly what I	wanted.

Thanks very much.

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, - wrote:

> c
> I thank both people who responded.  As I mentioned I'm new to screen so most 
> of what was suggested went over my head.  I will be experimennting with the 
> responses if for no other reason then to learn more about screen.
>
> Perhaps if I described what I want it will help.
>
> While within lynx the browser i do a screen command "c-a h" to capture the 
> text of the current screen to a text file.  Using "^z" to suspend lynx I drop 
> to the command line.  With a shell script some text within the file is 
> manipulated.  A "fg" takes me back to lynx.
>
> Reading the man page it appeared some screen functions might permit skipping 
> the suspend part of the above.  It would, using a screen function, send a 
> command to the script while remaining in lynx.
>
> I hope this is helpful, has anyone any suggestions or is it not something 
> possible using screen?
>
> Thanks again.
>

XB