Re: Making screen look for a pattern to detect "activity"

[Peter]

--- Hari Bhaskaran <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to make screen look for a certain configurable pattern in the 
> output to detect "activity" (for the montoring feature
> Cntrl-a M thingy). I am running a custom program which would print a 
> certain pattern that I want to watch for, not
> necessarily a strict "silence" or "activity"- which currently means
> any 
> output.
> 
> Is there a way to achieve this in screen? Any help is appreciated


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