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Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

By : Bogdan Vaida, Petru I»ôfan
Book Image

Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

By: Bogdan Vaida, Petru I»ôfan

Overview of this book

Websites, online services, databases, and pretty much every other computer that offers public services runs on Linux. From small servers to clusters, Linux is anywhere and everywhere. With such a broad usage, the demand for Linux specialists is ever growing. For the engineers out there, this means being able to develop, interconnect, and maintain Linux environments. This book will help you increase your terminal productivity by using Terminator, Guake and other tools. It will start by installing Ubuntu and will explore tools and techniques that will help you to achieve more work with less effort. Next, it will then focus on Terminator, the ultimate terminal, and vim, one of the most intelligent console editors. Futhermore, the readers will see how they can increase their command line productivity by using sed, find, tmux, network, autoenv. The readers will also see how they can edit files without leaving the terminal and use the screen space efficiently and copy-paste like a pro. Towards the end, we focus on network settings, Git hacks, and creating portable environments for development and production using Docker. Through this book, you will improve your terminal productivity by seeing how to use different tools.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

tmux – virtual consoles, background jobs and the like


In this section, we will be looking at another great tool called tmux. Tmux comes in particularly handy when working in remote ssh sessions, because it gives you the ability to continue your work from where you left off. It can also replace some of the features in terminator, if you are working, for example, on Mac, and you can't install terminator.

To get started with tmux on Ubuntu, we first need to install it:

sudo apt install tmux

Then just run the command:

tmux

And you will find yourself inside a brand new virtual console:

For demonstration purposes, we will open up a new tab that you can see the list of open sessions with tmux ls:

Let's start a new tmux named session:

tmux new -s mysession

Here we can see that opening a tmux session maintains the current directory. To list and switch tmux sessions inside tmux, hit Ctrl + B S.

We can see that we can switch to another tmux session, execute commands inside, and switch back to our initial...