Re: Send break to screen

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Colin Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> @Jostein Berntsen
>
> You were so close. I started playing around with the "stuff" command you
> recommended and started to see a pattern forming. I eventually came to the
> idea of removed the single quotes around your suggestion 'stuff " "' and
> just used -X stuff "^C" and it worked.
>
> Thank you. I got it working now with -X stuff "^C"
> No need to mess around with PID and process killing now.
>

Where is this kind of usage (stuff ^X) documented? I did not found it in
screen manual.

-clark


>
> Thank you everyone for your help.
>
> - Colin
>
> On 26 September 2016 at 18:11, Jostein Berntsen <jbernts-gyXR7Lt7FVk/[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 26.09.16,14:17, Colin Richardson wrote:
>>
>>> I am attempting to break a nodejs application that is running in a
>>> detached
>>> screen. (From another screen nodejs application).
>>>
>>> But I am falling over at the first hurdle in just trying to send a break
>>> command in the first place.
>>>
>>> I am doing ` screen -S ser02 -X "^C" `
>>> But when I do ` screen -r ser02 ` node is still running.
>>> I tried a few other things such as ` ^A b ` thinking it would be using
>>> the
>>> internal screen commands.
>>>
>>>
>> Can you check if this works?
>> screen -S ser02 -X 'stuff " "'
>>
>>
>> Jostein
>>
>>
>>
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