Re: start screen in another directory

[Micah Cowan]

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Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when I launch screen with 
> 
> screen -t tex 'cd /usr/local/tex' in my .screenrc, I get the message
> 'cannot exec cd; no such file or directory
> 
> All I want to do is start screen with different default directories.
> How do I do that?

One quick way to do that would be to do:

  $ ( cd /usr/local/tex && screen -t tex )

Otherwise, you could set up a .screenrc file with contents like:

  shelltitle tex
  chdir /usr/local/tex

You could call it ~/screenrc-tex and invoke screen like:

  $ screen -c ~/screenrc-tex

.

Note that "cd" is always a shell builtin, since it tells the "parent"
shell to change its directory. No program can change the working
directory of a different process; that's why screen complained about cd
not existing: it doesn't.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/

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