screenutils
screenutils is a set of classes that should help handling gnu-screen windows.
Feel free to report any modification you made, the whole code source is available under the terms of the GPLv2.
Exemple usage
Exemple in a python console:
>>> from screenutils import list_screens, Screen
>>> list_screens()
[]
>>> s= Screen("session1",True)
>>> # screen blink once
>>> # funky prompt should reduce logs lisibility so you should use sh or bash
>>> s.send_commands('bash')
>>> s.enable_logs()
>>> s.send_commands("df")
>>> print next(s.logs)
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 20161172 8084052 11052980 43% /
none 1505916 304 1505612 1% /dev
none 1512676 936 1511740 1% /dev/shm
none 1512676 380 1512296 1% /var/run
none 1512676 0 1512676 0% /var/lock
none 1512676 0 1512676 0% /lib/init/rw
none 20161172 8084052 11052980 43% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sda7 403567768 196284216 186783420 52% /home
popi@popi-laptop:~/Dev/github/screenutils$
>>> s.disable_logs()
>>> s = None
>>> s = Screen("session1")
>>> s.exists
True
>>> s2 = Screen("session2")
>>> s2.exists
False
>>> s2.initialize()
>>> list_screens()
[<Screen 'session2'>, <Screen 'session1'>]
>>>
Installation
You could install screenutils from github, by doing the following:
$ git clone http://github.com/Christophe31/screenutils.git $ cd screenutils $ python setup.py install
Or by just using the packages publicated at pypi, for instance with pip:
$ pip install screenutils
Features
- screens listing
- screen session creation
- screen session closing
- screen code insertion
- screen monitoring/logging
- screen session sharing with unix users
- to allow this feature, you will need to change some unixs rigths:
sudo chmod +s /usr/bin/screensudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen
Known issues
This may not work properly with bpython.
Roadmap
- multi windows screen support