sh screen - Wait for screen to terminate

gnu-screen, shell, terminate, wait

Solution

I found an solution:

You just simply check if the screen is still running and wait (`sleep`) for one second.

Like this:

while screen -list | grep -q $SCREEN_NAME
do
    sleep 1
done

Problem

I'm writing on a little script that does send a command to a running screen session. This command stops the screen but not instantly. I need to wait for it to finish in order to continue with the rest of the script. This is how I stop the screen: ``` screen -S $SCREEN_NAME -p 0 -X stuff "`printf "stop\r"`" ``` How could I do this?

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