On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 06:55:29PM -0400, David Blackman-Mathis wrote: > I am trying to automate the process of running, in parallel, every > file in a directory in new windows in a new screen session. The > portion of this I'm missing is the ability, from an attached state, to > open a new window and name it. I think this might have to do with the > screen "screen" command, but I can't find any working examples of what > I'm looking for, and it's incredibly difficult to google that term. > > I can get as far as: > screen -D -dmS practice -t first
This response is probably too late to be useful, and I'm not sure I understand exactly what you were looking for, but perhaps this will help someone: If you are within a screen session, to start a new window just invoke: screen -t newtitle newcommand for each command you want a new window for. If you want to start a completely new screen session with multiple windows, 2 approaches come to mind: If the set of commands is predetermined, create a custom config containing: screen -t firstwindow firstcommand screen -t secondwindow secondcommand screen -t thirdwindow thirdcommand and start the screen session using screen -d -m -S sessionname -c config If the set of commands is to be determined dynamically, you can create a shell script that starts the new session in detached mode and then sends the dynamically determined commands to it with screen -X: screen -d -m -S sessionname screen -r sessionname -X screen -t firstwindow firstcommand screen -r sessionname -X screen -t secondwindow secondcommand screen -r sessionname -X screen -t thirdwindow thirdcommand (Actually creating the detached session will create a window too, so the above will result in a session with 4 windows.) David _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
