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Manage terminal sessions with tmux

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Manage terminal sessions with tmux

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- [Instructor] In addition to Screen, there's another program that can be used to maintain a persistent terminal session and to switch between windows within a session. It's called tmux, short for Terminal Multiplexer. And while it's functionally similar to Screen, it's somewhat newer and has some different features. If it's not installed, you can get tmux pretty easily. And to start up a session, I'll type tmux. One of the most notable features that tmux has is a handy bar at the bottom of the screen that shows the windows you have open along with the host name and the clock and the date. This bar's customizable but I'll leave it alone for now. I can see that I have one window open here down in the bottom left, number zero. I'll run a command. Notice that the name of the window changes to the current process. I can create a new window while this other command is running with control B, C. Tmux uses the control B key combination followed by a letter for a command. I'll run something…

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