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I am trying to automate my work flow. I have a script that opens individual window in screen for each IP in a list. Imagine setupscreen.sh <IP1> <IP2> .... After all windows are open, each sshs to the proper server and sets the title to hostname on that particular server. I keep window 0 as my utility window from where I execute other scripts. For example I send commands to all windows, loop over each window with 1 second interval, and so on. This is all good, but the problem is, I get the window count from my script when I create them. If I close a window, this is no longer accurate. The question is how can I get (through scripting) my window count and if possible the remaining windows indexes.

p.s. All clusters I need to login and perform tasks have screen and almost non of them have tmux and it's hustle to get it there.

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  • Screen is no longer being actively developed, tmux offers a better solution and is still receiving updates.
    – Joe
    Sep 25, 2015 at 17:31
  • The closest thing I'm aware of would be the windowlist command (Control-A w)
    – Jeff Schaller ♦
    Sep 25, 2015 at 17:36
  • @Joe I know this but it's not up to me. This is why I have the note on the bottom.
    – Lyubo
    Sep 25, 2015 at 19:22
  • @JeffSchaller if I can only catch somehow the output of ctrl-a-w ( or better ctrl-a-") I'll be happy.
    – Lyubo
    Sep 25, 2015 at 19:24

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screen -Q windows

will print out your active screen windows with index & title.

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  • This is pipe-able but you still would catch a pause in the shell script before it would output. Seems very strange to me.
    – Joe
    Sep 26, 2015 at 3:05
  • On the machines I work with, screen is not compiled with -Q.
    – Lyubo
    Oct 29, 2015 at 1:45
  • It is useful, but will not work in all cases. From documentation of the "windows" command: "If this list is too long to fit on the terminal's status line only the portion around the current window is displayed." So, you are not guaranteed the full list.
    – jwd
    Mar 23, 2018 at 23:48
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screen -X msgwait 0 ; screen -Q windows

works for me. You may want to restore msgwait to the 5 seconds default value afterwards.

Thanks @nyr

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