I'm setting up .screenrc, and I'm trying to set up a couple of screens as follows:
screen 1: cat > ~/fifo
screen 2: bash
~/fifo already exists...
This way, in screen 2, I can do something like this:
Code:
$ cat ~/fifo | tr a-z A-Z
then I can type
into screen 1, and I'll see
in screen 2.
I'm having trouble setting up screen 1. Here's my .screenrc
Code:
startup_message off
screen cat > ~/.fifo
I start up screen, and it exits immediately:
Code:
$ screen
[screen is terminating]
Now...
when I run this at the shell, the fifo will block for input, and the process won't quit until I enter Control-D which closes the file. The process launched by .screenrc exits immediately.
I can run the command from within screen, operates just like it would in any other shell session...
... when 'cat > ~/.fifo' starts, launched within screen, I guess stdin is empty, so the process terminates immediately... is there a way of launching this in a way that leaves stdin open?
