Re: Access environment variables in screenrc

[Jürgen Weigert]

When I put this line in my ~/.screenrc

screen 7 env shelltitle="window 7 at $HOSTNAME" bash


then screen will create a shell in window 7, that has the machine's
hostname as part of its shelltitle env variable.

cheers, JW-

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 1:02 PM, John Blakeman <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to put something like:
>
>     shelltitle "$HOSTNAME"
>
> in my screenrc, and have it work.
>
> Furthermore, I'd like to access any environment variable in my screenrc that
> isn't a screen specific environment variable.  Is this possible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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