Sending Same Command To all Windows in screen on linux

devangjani · 03-03-2010, 10:37 PM

Hi everyone,
I just have one question that is it possible to send same command at the same time to all windows in screen on Linux.
Please reply with clear example.

Thank You in advance...............

penguiniator · 03-03-2010, 11:17 PM

The man page does not seem to show anything like that. You may want to read it more closely. I just skimmed it.

evo2 · 03-03-2010, 11:31 PM

You could script it with something like

Code:

for window in "foo bar baz" ; do
   screen -S 12345.pts-1.hal -p $window -X stuff 'somecommand^M'
done

Not sure how you could automatically get the window names for -p. The must be a way though.

Evo2.

devangjani · 03-04-2010, 06:01 AM

Hey Thanks $ reply if possible u can read following article.
I read article but not able to understand proper meaning .
Hey if u understand than please explain with proper example..

http://blog.cone.be/2009/11/24/gnu-s...creen-windows/

G3n · 07-05-2010, 12:56 PM

That article is written as a tutorial. Each article building on the base principles and earlier articles. Also, just to make sure, the article talks about GNU Screen, the terminal multiplexer; check the start of the article for more info about that..

As such it assumes you have an open screen session, with the necessary "screen windows" opened inside. After which you can press "CTRL+a" followed by ":". The command you enter afterwards will be sent to all the windows in that screen session.

Hope this helps.. (and you could've just asked about whatever info you need in the comment section of my article post, Id 've answered you there too

)