On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Jostein Berntsen <jber...@broadpark.no>wrote:

> On 18.08.11,10:36, Kevin Van Workum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to query the values of environment variable that are set in
> the
> > shells of other window in my screen session. For example, I would like to
> > know the value of $HOSTNAME in window 0 while in window 1.
> >
> > Really, all I want is HOSTNAME, USER, and PWD which are all displayed on
> my
> > hardstatus line. So if I could just get the hardstatus line for each
> window,
> > that would be fine. The idea would be to create a screen-aware scp
> command
> > to copy files from one location to another.
> >
>
> This should work:
>
> :eval "at 0" "echo '$HOSTNAME $USER $PWD'"
>

No, that just evaluates the variables in screen's environment. I want the
variables in the operating shell of a given window, or just the status line
of a window.


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> Jostein
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