Re: GNU screen hardstatus line

Thanks ewfalor and ZyX,

I see what you mean.

ps -ostart_time $(echo $STY | cut -d. -f1)

will give me the start time and

ps -p $(echo $STY | cut -d. -f1) -o etime

will give me the elapsed time.

I finally end up with using the following backtick in my .screenrc:

backtick 0 30 30 sh -c 'ps -o lstart $(echo $STY | cut -d. -f1) '

Thanks


On Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 11:29:56 AM UTC-5, ewfalor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 08:12:25AM -0800, Allan wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a way to note down the starting time or the duration of the current screen session? I always resume after a long time after and feel it would be helpful to know when the screen session was started.
>
> This is not really a vim question, but I'll bite.
>
> Unfortunately, screen's built-in 'time' command gives you the current
> time instead of the duration of the screen session itself.
>
> Offhand, I'd suggest asking ps(1) for the starting time of your screen
> server. You can get the PID of the screen server from the STY
> environment variable from within screen:
>
> ps -ostart_time $(echo $STY | cut -d. -f1)
>
> You could put the output of a variation of that command into the
> statusline by means of screen's 'backtick' command.
>
> For follow-up discussion, I recommend the screen-users mailing list
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users
>
> and/or the #screen channel on Freenode.
>
> --
> Erik Falor
> Registered Linux User #445632 http://unnovative.net

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