Question

Windows, cygwin.
I’ve successfully created a screen session and used it how i would like from a command prompt:
screen -S remote then can stuff it like so: screen -S remote -X stuff blah and everthing works just peachy. However, I am trying to do the stuffing from a PHP script. <?php exec("screen -S remote -X stuff blah"); ?> to no avail.

It seems that PHP can only use screen with certain options. <?php exec("screen -ls"); ?> works as expected, listing the current screen sessions, but i cannot stuff anything into a session 🙁

I am even able to create a session through PHP, but am never able to “use” the session. I’ve even tried screen -S remote -p 0 stuff blah

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

after a bit of experimenting, i managed to successful stuff.

exec("start screen -S remote -X stuff blah");