Sending ctrl-c to specific screen session Sending ctrl-c to specific screen session shell shell

Sending ctrl-c to specific screen session


I don't quite understand you but to send ctrl-c to a window in a screen session:

screen -S session_name -X at window_number stuff $'\003'# orscreen -S session_name -X -p window_number stuff $'\003'

If you want to send something to all the windows, use # (needs to be quoted) as the window_number.

UPDATE:

Screen's stuff command also supports ^X (or ^x) to mean CTRL-X so the following command can also be used to send CTRL-C.

screen -S session_name -X at window_number stuff ^C