Re: Using the stuff command in screen

On 2020-04-13 20:33,
dan d. <[email protected]> put forth the proposition:
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> Thanks to those who provided suggestions on this topic.
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> To recap, using a keybinding for the exec command to run a shell script didn't work with the stuff command.
> I wanted stuff to send keystrokes to a program to act as a macro, it was in the shell script.
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> Doing some tinkering, if I ran the shell script from the cli in one window it provided the macro function for the program in another window.
> Likewise running the screen command for stuff directly in the cli also worked, as did an alias or function in the cli.
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> Eeven as it worked as desired above, there is still no joy using the exec from within the program.
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> I can run the shell script but not an alias or function with the exec.  Is there a way to run an alias or function with exec?

Aliases and functions set in the shell are usually only available in
interactive shells.

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