On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:07 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:02:07PM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: > > The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen > > running with a set command in it by doing this: > > > > $ screen -dm $command > > > > However, it doesn't work. Screen exits without creating the detached > > screen. > > screen -dm isn't the same as screen -d -m. Try the latter. Just an FYI... You *may* be right, however... "Standards" dictate that "flags" can be combined into a single parameter. This is "eased" (debatable IMO) by the "getopts" function in bash, getopt(1) command and getopt(3) function call for C et al. Unfortunately, *some* few programs do not implement this correctly. But over the years, as programs have been "cleaned up" and replaced, their number has (thankfully) diminished. > <snip sig stuff> I note the OP has solved it. -- Bill