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Tmux is a terminal that I often use. Great benefits are if ssh disconnects the terminal remains and if I run some command, it continues to run. Other benefit is same screen for two or more ssh connections.

These are more common basic command to use in tmux

Start a new session with a specific name

tmux new -s session-5

By default , after entering the command “tmux”, sessions are named with a number

List sessions tmux ls

tim@tim-linux:~$ tmux ls
0: 2 windows (created Sun Oct 11 13:10:12 2020) (attached)
session-5: 1 windows (created Tue Oct 13 11:26:48 2020)
tim@tim-linux:~$

There are two sessions in this computer, named 0 and session-5.

Connect to specific session

tmux attach -t session-5

I”ll use C^ to specify CONTROL and M^ to specify ALT button. The control character for tmux is C^b. After this combination is pressed user enters control mode and perform actions like copy and paste, split windows etc.

Split session vertically

C^b %

Split session horizontally

C^b "

The result of splitting first vertically then horizontally looks like the following:

Navigate between open windows

C^b arrows

Open new window

C^b c

Detach – exit from tmux, but leave the session running

C^b d

To copy in tmux, first click C^b [. With arrows go to desired text click C^SPACE. Select desired text with arrows. Click M^w. Text copied.

To paste go to desired location to paste , click C^b ]