Introduction
Terminal MUltipleXer (tmux) allows you to switch between several terminals in one, detach and reattach. Using tmux is useful when you want to keep programs running on the background, like screen. tmux allows to split the screen into panes and you can use multiple windows.
You can customize shortcuts by adding a .tmux.conf in your home directory, in this cheatsheet we don’t use any customization and it will work with default configuration.
tmux Commands cheatsheat
For triggering actions in tmux you need to use the bind-key, by default is ctrl+b followed by a key.
| command | action |
|---|---|
| tmux new -s tutorialstech | Start new session named tutorialstech |
| tmux ls | list available sessions |
| tmux a | attach |
| tmux a -t tutorialstech | attach to session tutorialstech |
| tmux kill-session -t tutorialstech | kill session with name tutorialstech |
ctrl+b actions
When tmux is running press ctrl+b and the key:
| key | action |
|---|---|
| c | new window |
| " | vertical split |
| % | horizontal split |
| switch pane | |
| n | next window |
| x | kill pane |
| d | detach |
| & | kill window |
|
| , | name window | | w | list windows | | f | find window | | t | show time in terminal |
Other usefull actions
move window 2 into a new pane in the current window
:joinp -s :2<CR>
move the current pane into a new pane in window 1
:joinp -t :1<CR>
````
Kill all tmux sessions:
tmux ls | grep : | cut -d. -f1 | awk '{print substr($1, 0, length($1)-1)}' | xargs kill ```