lib for gnu-screen: creates/close/list/log sessions, injects commands...
Project description
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:
$ pip install git+http://github.com/Christophe31/screenutils.git
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/screen
sudo chmod 755 /var/run/screen
Known issues
This may not work properly with bpython.
Roadmap
multi windows screen support
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