Ttyjfyk

How do I disable the output when you are done with a screen from the screen command?

Example:

function foo()

 echo "Testing..."
 sleep 2
 echo "Done!"

export -f foo
screen -q bash -c "foo" &> /dev/null

It all works as expected, however I cannot find out how to disable the "[screen is terminating]".

There are only two solutions that I can think of. The first is to modify the screen code itself and recompile. The second is to have something like an expect wrapper around the program (untested):

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
spawn screen -q bash -c foo
interact 
 "[screen is terminating]" exit

The screen is using your tty to write that text, so you can't stop the screen to write that text by just redirect stdout or stderr to the /dev/null.

I have the simplest way for removing that line from an output.

In this approach you need to move the cursor upward and clear that line.
Escape characters can help you with that, for example,to execute the screen command with cat command, you need to execute that like:

screen cat;echo -en 'e[Ae[K'

This will remove the line [screen is terminating].

Simple :D

The only way is to modify the "screen" executable.
The best (portable) way to do so is something like this:

offset=$(tr -c '[[:print:]]' 'n' <`which screen`|grep -b "screen is terminating" | cut -d ":" -f 1)
printf "x00" | dd of=`which screen` obs=1 seek=$offset conv=notrunc

obviously the script must be re-run every time the package is updated.