{"id":87,"date":"2025-12-20T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/pipeawk\/?p=87"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:31:24","slug":"demystify-multitasking-terminal-with-the-tmux-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/demystify-multitasking-terminal-with-the-tmux-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Demystify Multitasking Terminal with the TMUX Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s talk today about the very useful utility called\u00a0tmux<\/strong>. After reading this post, you will know what tmux is, why and how you use it, and a few tricks to\u00a0 make the experience better.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the question, what is tmux? Just like the name implies, tmux stands for teminal multiplexer, it has for all practical purposes, replaced the older but similar utility called\u00a0screens<\/strong>. Once you start tmux, you are welcomed by a similar screen as before, the only difference is the task bar located at the bottom. Let’s see it in\u00a0 action.<\/p>\n

To launch tmux, you simply issue the command tmux from the $ prompt, you are welcomed by a screen similar to the following:<\/p>\n

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At this point, the session, unless intentional terminated, or the system is rebooted, it will outlive your login session. At this point let’s discuss attaching and detaching from a tmux session. Detaching simply means that the session will continue to run, but in the background, for example, you could start a long process and if you detach, or you are disconnected from the system, you can re-login and attach to the existing sessions. Worth mentioning here is that you can have multiple sessions running simultaneously. Each session is independent from another.<\/p>\n

The default detach key sequence is CTRL-B followed by D for detach. At this point you can issue the following command:<\/p>\n

tmux ls<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The screenshot above depicts two running simultaneous sessions, “0” and “1”. Sessions can be named, the incremental number is the default id assignment; the -t option allows you to name the session at will.<\/p>\n

To\u00a0attach<\/strong> to a running session, you will issue a command similar to the following:<\/p>\n

tmux attach -t 0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The command line argument\u00a0-t<\/strong> specifies the session to attach to, if only one session is running, the -t is not required, tmux will attach to the only running session.<\/p>\n

Now the light bulb should start going and you can imagine many possibilities with how tmux can be useful, seasoned systems admins use it, developers use it, etc.<\/p>\n

I believe this is a good stop point for the basics. I will write another post for the advanced uses. For example you could setup key binding overrides and plugins, and have something like this when you start tmux:<\/p>\n

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Thank you for staying with me until the end. I hope you now better understand tmux.<\/p>\n

Happy reading and type away…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s talk today about the very useful utility called\u00a0tmux. After reading this post, you will know what tmux is, why and how you use it, and a few tricks to\u00a0 make the experience better. Let’s start with the question, what is tmux? Just like the name implies, tmux stands for teminal multiplexer, it has for … Continue reading “Demystify Multitasking Terminal with the TMUX Utility”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pipeawk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}