Five Minute Lightning Talk: More screen(1) Hacks

Sending Messages to screen

Using echo function to display who incomming mail is from
Better than mutt beeping on new mail

    tail -f .procmail.log | \
        perl -ne 'system "screen", "-X", "echo", "New mail from $1" if /^From (\S+) /'

The hardstatus function can display the statusbar always
Shell script to display the current wireless information

    #!/bin/bash
    trap "screen -X hardstatus ignore" EXIT

    while sleep 5; do
        STRING=$(iwconfig wlan0 |\
             awk '/ESSID:/ {ID=$NF}  /Point/ {AP=$NF}  END { print ID, AP }')
        screen -X hardstatus alwayslastline "$STRING"
    done