Re: Screen question

>    I am trying to use 'screen -S <session> -X hardcopy <filename>' to
>    capture a detached screen's current output to a file.
>    The detached screen sessions were started with 'screen -m -d -S
>    <session> -h 1000' by a startup script.

You started it without a command. So a shell should be started on window
0. Try using the following command to get the hardcopy:

screen -S <session> -p 0 -X hardcopy <filename>

-p tells screen which window to use.

I think if you start screen and detach it at the same time no window is
selected. If you attach a shell to the screen you do some sort of
selection and then naturally the command works. I think, this is a
feature. Specially useful if you run several commands under the same
screen in detached mode. You can make hardcopy from every command under
that screen if you like.

For more information read the fine manual... :-)

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