Is there any way to re-number or swap tmux sessions, just as you can renumber or swap tmux windows? I can't see any command for it and want to easily switch between certain sessions.
They're sorted by name (which defaults to a number) You can change the names so that they appear in the order that you prefer.
Outside of tmux:
tmux rename-session -t 0 zzz
inside tmux:
C-b $
Or:
c-b : rename session -t current_name new_name
The default ordering seems to have changed recently from name to index. If you want to put it back to name, try this in your .tmux.conf
bind s choose-tree -sZ -O name
If you'd like to "manually" order your sessions, you can prefix the session name with a zero-width or invisible unicode character. For example:
$ tmux rename-session -t charlie $(echo -e "\u200B")charlie
$ tmux rename-session -t beta $(echo -e "\u200C")beta
$ tmux rename-session -t alpha $(echo -e "\u200D")alpha
$ tmux list-sessions
charlie: 1 windows (created Sun Nov 2 12:39:30 2014) [284x87] (attached)
beta: 1 windows (created Sun Nov 2 12:39:27 2014) [284x87]
alpha: 1 windows (created Sun Nov 2 12:39:23 2014) [284x87]
The drawback is that you still have to refer to the session using those characters.
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I am looking for a command that allow me to copy the entire output of a tmux session from bash. For example:
$ tmux ls
0: 1 windows (created Wed Mar 2 20:19:19 2022) [213x54]
I would like to copy all output in this session to a file from my bash session. Something like:
sh copy-tmux.sh [tmux-session-id]
I am trying to create an automated clean shutdown of my opensimulator servers.
On each server, I have several Tmux sessions. Inside each session, there are several windows. In the following example, there are only two sessions to keep things simple.
sara#opensim:~$ tmux ls
Robust: 5 windows (created Tue May 12 22:08:28 2020)
Simulators01: 6 windows (created Tue May 12 23:30:38 2020)
sara#opensim:~$
In the full version, there will be 10+ Simulator sessions.
What I want to do is use a shell script to select a specific session. Every session will have a closedown shell script which looks similar to this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
SESSION="InstancesTesting"
echo "checking for session - $SESSION"
SESSIONEXISTS=$(tmux list-sessions | grep $SESSION)
if [ "$SESSIONEXISTS" != "" ]
then
echo "session found"
tmux attach-session -d -t $SESSION
tmux select-window -t '0821'
tmux send-keys -t '0821' 'quit' C-m
tmux select-window -t '0900'
tmux send-keys -t '0900' 'quit' C-m
tmux select-window -t '0901'
tmux send-keys -t '0901' 'quit' C-m
tmux select-window -t '0910'
tmux send-keys -t '0910' 'quit' C-m
tmux select-window -t '0911'
tmux send-keys -t '0911' 'quit' C-m
tmux select-window -t '0920'
tmux send-keys -t '0920' 'quit' C-m
echo "finished shut down call for $SESSION"
else
echo "session not found skipping"
fi
The problem line is
tmux attach-session -d -t $SESSION
When it is run from a shell script, everything after that stops until the session is detached. However, without attaching the session only the windows of the last attached session can be accessed.
I can't simply kill the session at the end of the quit commands because the simular running inside each window can take up to 10 mins to shut down. Neither do I want to wait 10 mins between starting each shutdown. I want to set them all going then wait for the processes to close before doing a reboot.
What I need is to either:
1. Attach a session and allow the script to keep running without pressing ctrl+b D to detach.
or
2. Change the session which is being accessed without actually attaching it like the above example.
I have also tried
tmux switch-client SessionName
tmux switch-client -t SessionName
tmux switch-client -n
All of these return the same result
no current client
I have also tried
tmux send-keys -t 'WindowName' 'tmux choose-session' C-m
tmux send-keys -t 'WindowName' '0' C-m
Unfortunately, this option also states there is no client.
I am sure this must be possible, I am going round in circles, please help
There is no concept of a "selected session", clients have an attached session but outside tmux when you don't specify a session the choice of which to use is made separately each time. See here: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Advanced-Use#the-default-target
But you shouldn't need it. You are already using -t to specify the window, use it to specify the session as well:
tmux send-keys -t "$SESSION:8021" 'quit' C-m
You don't need select-window either unless you later plan to attach, and then one select-window at the end would do. See https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Advanced-Use#command-targets for a description of targets.
You may also find the has-session command useful instead of using grep, or the -F flag to list-sessions.
I created a new session of tmux, intending to use the -s flag to name it, but confused the command with -S which specifies a socket. I know the session is alive, because the processes I started in it are still running. But when I try to list running sessions it does not appear. Where is my session and how do I recover it?
In tmux option -S means socket path (from man tmux):
-S socket-path
Specify a full alternative path to the server socket. If -S is specified, the default
socket directory is not used and any -L flag is ignored.
So you have to find out the parent directory where tmux was run with
-S option and pass this option to tmux to point it to the
alternative socket path. You could for example find PID of the
tmux process:
$ ps aux | grep '[t]mux'
ja 15121 0.0 0.0 20252 2236 pts/6 S+ 00:44 0:00 tmux -S new
And then check this process cwd in /proc like this:
$ ls -l /proc/15121/cwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ja users 0 Aug 19 00:52 /proc/15121/cwd -> /home/ja
And then to refer to this tmux session:
$ tmux -S /home/ja/new ls
0: 1 windows (created Sat Aug 19 00:44:46 2017) [212x65] (attached)
File ~/.tmux.conf
new-session -n terminal
Run tmux by command:
tmux
Result: two sessions found in sessions lists (check by ctrl+b s)
(0) + 1: 1 windows (attached)
(1) + terminal: 1 windows
I would like to have only terminal session which I've defined in my config file.
(0) + 1: 1 windows (attached) - first session that created by the tmux command.
Then tmux load configs and create one more session (1) + terminal: 1 windows because you have new-session -n terminal line in .tmux.conf
To create one session remove new-session -n terminal from .tmux.conf and start tmux as tmux or tmux new -s session_name
So I've created a script which omits creation additional session (only those defined in configuration)
#!/bin/sh
tmux -2 attach-session -d
I would like to bind CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (without prefix) to tmux functions, under minTTY/cygwin.
I have tried the following tmux configuration:
set-option -gw xterm-keys on
bind-key -n C-Tab next-window
bind-key -n "^[[1;5I" next-window # tmux doesn't recognize
bind-key -n "\e[1;5I" next-window # tmux doesn't recognize
If I hit CTRL+TAB after launching tmux, I get a bell sound. If I hit it after the tmux prefix, it prints 1;5I.
I am using minTTY 2.2.3 under cygwin/Babun. I have disabled minTTY's handling of this key combo via its options (SwitchShortcuts=no in .minttyrc).
For reference, CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB work for cycling screen windows with the following .screenrc:
bindkey "^[[1;5I" next
bindkey "^[[1;6I" prev
I got here because I bumped into the same issue.
tmux now supports custom key bindings via user-keys - since August 2017, so if you can build tmux yourself, or once a new tmux version is released, it's possible like so:
set -s user-keys[0] "\e[1;5I"
set -s user-keys[1] "\e[1;6I"
bind-key -n User0 select-pane -t+
bind-key -n User1 select-pane -t-
Note that you must use double quotes and not single quotes or else it won't interpret \e correctly.
At the time of writing the example in the manual uses single quotes - https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1043 , though it's likely to be fixed soon.