Re: Setting session name when calling screen from script

[Aaron Davies]

On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:30:38PM -0600, address@hidden  
> wrote:
>
> > I'm calling screen from a script and want to set the session name  
> > based on
> > run-time parameters. So I'm using a command similar to:
> >
> > VARNAME=FOO
> > screen -S $VARNAME
>
> Do you not need to still export VARNAME?


no, it should be being expanded by the shell, not screen, and  
exporting would only change its visibility inside screen. my guess is  
either a quoting issue. brad, can you paste the relevant lines of the  
actual script?
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Aaron Davies
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