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Wrangle your terminal with tmux

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Overview

Learn to manage your terminal sessions and work more effectively from the command line using tmux. If you use the command line at all, tmux can make your life easier.
tmux bills itself as a terminal multiplexer. It allows you to wrangle multiple terminal sessions from one window. Instead of keeping track of many terminal windows yourself, you can use tmux to create, organize, and navigate between them. Even more importantly, tmux lets you detach from and re-attach sessions, so that you can leave your terminal sessions running in the background and resume them later. This is especially useful if you're working on a remote server: you can set up a persistent session that will continue running when you close your laptop. You can even share a tmux session to facilitate pair programming.

Syllabus

  • Organize your terminal using tmux panes
  • Create collections of panes using tmux windows
  • Reuse terminal workspaces using tmux sessions
  • Manage terminal workspaces using session naming
  • Zoom and resize to view a particular pane within tmux
  • Customize tmux with tmux.conf
  • Copy and paste text from a tmux session
  • Enable mouse mode in tmux
  • Automate your workflow using tmux scripts
  • Share a tmux session for pair programming with ssh
  • Handle history in tmux sessions

Taught by

Bonnie Eisenman

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