RE: Screen question

Gerhard, You're the man!

I guess I should have been more accurate; the detached screen sessions were
actually started with 'screen -m -d -S <session> -h 1000 <myprogram>' by a
startup script. However, I think what you said below still makes sense, and
anyway, it works!

<Flipping back through the manual in puzzlement...>

thanks,
rsn


-----Original Message-----
From: Gerhard Siegesmund [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:45 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: 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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