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Serhat Teker
Serhat Teker

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Tmux New Session

#tmux #zsh #bash

Entrée

I keep forgetting how to create a new tmux session.

Is it this one?

$ tmux new sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force
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No.

Is it this one?

$ tmux new-session sessions should be nested with care, unset $TMUX to force
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No.

$ tmux new-session -d # from tmux cli, prefix/ctrl+b # :new -d
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No error? Good. Check session with prefix + s (ctrl + b + s). Ok it seems this works.

However this gives a strange session name like 29. What is it? I though the ultimate answer to the universe was 42.

Solution

Here is the complete command to create a new tmux session:

$ tmux new-session -d -s "new" -c ~/path/to/some/dir -n "main"
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This command will create a session named new, with a window named main in ~/path/to/some/dir as working directory.

It would probably better to run it from function with some args for more customization;

# .zshrc/.bashrc # Crate and attach a new session with args # defaults: session named "new" in ${HOME} as working dir with window named "main" # # Usage: # $ tnew # $ tnew remote ~/path/to/dir # $ tnew remote ~/path/to/dir scripts tnew() { local session_name="${1:-new}" local session_dir=${2:-~/} local session_window_name="${3:-main}" tmux new-session \ -d \ -s ${session_name} \ -c ${session_dir} \ -n ${session_window_name} }
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As described in function's doc you can use this function as below:

$ tnew $ tnew remote ~/path/to/dir $ tnew remote ~/path/to/dir scripts
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Now I can peacefully forget (again) creating new tmux session, all I need to
remember: tnew.

All done!

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