GNU screen in startup screen: multiple commands

[MadeR]

Greetings,
I am searching for a way to run multiple commands at boot time using the gnu screen utility.

A solution could be:
screen -dm -t title1 command1
screen -dm -t title2 command2
.
.
.
screen -dm -t titlen commandn

but the result would be many sessions, each one with just one child. What I need is just one session with many children, one child per command.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks

[Flimm]

Try this:

screen -dm -t title1 bash -c 'command1 ; command2 ; command3'

This will run command1, command2 and command3 in sequence in one screen session.

[gmargo]

I think the OP wanted to run a single screen program with multiple internal "screens", each running a different program.

Here's one way to do it. screen(1) has a "-c" option to provide a startup file instead of $HOME/.screenrc. And that startup file can start new internal screens.

Example input file:

# Screen startup file to start multiple commands under multiple screens.
# Start with "screen -c thisfilename"

# Screen 0: Start 'top'
# Screen 1: Start 'tail -F /var/log/syslog'

screen -t top    0 top
screen -t syslog 1 tail -F /var/log/syslog

Save the above to a file, say "fancy.screenrc". Then start screen with:

screen -c fancy.screenrc