Here's a little script that does what you want. There are two issues with "screen -d -m ": - it double-forks, so the created session's pid can't be captured - it might exit before the new session is ready
Therefore I had to resort to forking with -D and polling. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #!/bin/sh # args: $1 : session-name, $2 : shell command to run session=$1 screen -c /dev/null -S $session -D -m & session="${!}".$session until screen -c /dev/null -S $session -X echo ''; do sleep 0.1; done screen -c /dev/null -S $session -X stuff "$2\015" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Philipp Haselwarter _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users