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Genearl Commands for Tmux

tmux is a very powerful interact-able bash interpreter. Once you familiarized with the hot keys, it would be an inextricable programs of you.

Copy and Past:

Moves	Keys
Enter Copy Mode	ctrl-b + [
Start to selecte	ctrl-b + blank
Copy the selected words	ctrl-b + w
Copy the selected words	Enter
Paste the words	ctrl-b + ]
Show the copy list	ctrl-b + #
Select the copy list	ctrl-b + =
Jump to the line head	ctrl-a
Jump to the line end	ctrl-e

Panes: Each window could split into small panes which is the key feature for tmux.

Moves	Keys
Split pane horizontal	ctrl-b + "
Split pane Vertical	ctrl-b + %
Resize the the Panes	ctrl-b + ctrl-→
Show pane ID	ctrl-b + q
Show the window and pane ID	ctrl-b + w
move the Panes into right	ctrl-b + {

Tips:

1. Panes resize:
   After you executed ctrl-b, you can hold ctrl and press the up, down, left, or right as many as you can until it fits you the best.

Window Related

Moves	Keys
Create a new Window	ctrl-b+ ‘c’
Switch to the next window	ctrl-b + n
Move the window eadge to the right	ctrl-b + →
flip the window lift	ctrl-b + {
flip the window right	ctrl-b + }

Detach and Attach

In tmux, you can detach the current session and attach it later. It is very useful when you are working on a remote server and you need to leave for a while. Basically, the detach the session means you can leave the session and the session will keep running in the background. And then, you can savly log out the server. When you come back, you can attach the session and continue your work.

Moves	Keys
Detach the session	ctrl-b + d
List the session	tmux list-sessions
Attach the session	tmux attach-session -t <session-number>

This could be very helpful.
Example:

tmux list-sessions
tmux attach-session -t 10

List of the session will be like:

10: 1 windows (created Tue Jan 28 11:01:30 2025)
11: 1 windows (created Tue Jan 28 11:05:37 2025)
12: 1 windows (created Tue Jan 28 11:06:43 2025)
20: 1 windows (created Fri Jan 31 10:11:23 2025) (attached)
21: 1 windows (created Fri Jan 31 10:21:27 2025)
9: 1 windows (created Tue Jan 28 11:01:14 2025)