Re: script to run screen with multiple telnet windows?

[Sam Cramer]

On 6/16/06, Rod Nussbaumer <address@hidden> wrote:

> Try something more like this.
>
> screen -S screen_cons -t node$i $i
> screen -S screen_cons -X stuff "telnet $tsv 20$i`echo -ne '\015'`"
>
> It is hard to tell exactly what you are trying to do here, but telnet isn't a 
> command known to screen. It seems more like you want
> the telnet command to be passed on to the shell running IN screen. The stuff 
> command does that. You have to get that pesky newline
> in there to end the line, too. You might have to remove the double quotes.

Thanks for the reply.  What I'm trying to do is have multiple windows,
each running telnet to a different port on a terminal server.

According the man page, screen be configured to have telnet support built in.

Thanks,
Sam