Send enter command to screen?

[realchamp]

Hi!

I'm currently writing a C++ application to manage some screen functions in Debian(server).

However this issue have bothered me for 2 days now...

What I want to do is to send a command to an attached screen which is running.
Used the following command:

screen -S screenwindow

So I send a command with the -X parameter, which works just fine...

screen -S screenwindow -X stuff yes

The command I want to send is "yes" and it does appear in my screen window when I attach it.

But the problem is that I need it to submit it... well I need to press "enter" and I've been looking everywhere on how to do that.

Because right now it hangs on a line like this:

Something here, do you want bla bla: yes

Obviously I could just press enter myself, but the problem is that it's running as a deamon and but it is supposed to do this all by itself .


So are there any way I can submit it?

Thanks

- realchamp.

[Cabhan]

Try this:

screen -S screenwindow -X stuff $'\012'

$'\012' means "newline character".

[realchamp]

Try this:

screen -S screenwindow -X stuff $'\012'

$'\012' means "newline character".

Hi! Thanks for the answer!

Unfortunately it did not work.

I wrote that line, after entering the command which would print "yes" and it didn't even register that I wrote the $ '\012'


Thanks,
- realchamp.

[coopstah13]

i would send a carriage return (\r), and maybe even followed by a new line (\r\n)

I'm not sure what the corresponding value is with regards to what cabhan posted earlier

[realchamp]

i would send a carriage return (\r), and maybe even followed by a new line (\r\n)

I'm not sure what the corresponding value is with regards to what cabhan posted earlier

Hey. Sorry for not replying.

This solved the problem. I added the "\r" in the back.

Thanks alot!

- realchamp.