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jackofalltrades Jul 11, 2023

Can you please ELI5 tmux?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1931366

Can you please ELI5 tmux? - Lemmy

I am fairly familiar with Linux, I’ve been using different distros for some years now and have done some config editing here and there. I am also a web developer and use the terminal quite a lot and so I always stumble on people’s recommendation to use tmux and how good it is, but I never really understood what it does and, in layman’s terms, how can it be useful and for what use cases. Can you guys please enlight me a bit on this? Thank you.

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zikk_transport2

In the company I work, we have to use jumpbox + “password” from proprietary code generator.

Imagine going through this, then you suddenly need 2nd terminal. Inconvenience doing it again in another terminal?

Well, there is a solution:

tmux

CTRL+B then ". And now you have 2 terminals.

Also tmux is great for “quick solution” kind of things - to leave something running in the background. Talking about background - you can have many terminals open, from only 1 SSH session. :)