Re: Opening a new window, and cd to the same directory as the current window, no matter what I'm doing

[Aaron Davies]

hmm, interesting

this is cumbersome, but maybe you could suspend the ssh session
(<return>, ~, ctrl-Z), say "screen", and then resume it (fg)?

alternatively, someone who knows the internals could explain why it is
that "screen" at the command-line behaves differently from "screen" at
the screen prompt.

On 10/30/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > just the bare command "screen", when run within screen, creates a new
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> > window int he same dir as the window in which you typed it (i'm not
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> Thank you for your answer
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> well, the problem is when, for example, I'm on a remote box via ssh, I
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> I'd need something like the 'exec' command but which would take the
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Aaron Davies
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