Re: [screen-devel] Patch for displaying inet address in hardstatus

[Steve Kemp]

On Sun Jul 12, 2009 at 11:27:13 +0200, Berry Octave wrote:

> It prints on it something like "lo:127.0.0.1 eth0:10.0.2.2 wlan0:192.168.5.22"
> (supposing that eth0 and wlan0 are active).

  Looks cute, and I'd be tempted to merge into tscreen.

  But the obvious question is:  How is this better than using
 the backtick primitive?

  e.g:

    backtick 1 5 5 /path/to/script
    hardstatus alwayslastline "%1`"

  Then having /path/to/script echo the data you wish to display.

Steve
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