Learn tmux

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As a default, when your SSH connection terminates, any remote terminal sessions started by that connection also terminate. You can avoid that issue and reuse those sessions for yourself and others by using the tmux terminal multiplexer. You can also manage more complex tasks from a single SSH connection, as a terminal multiplexer can provide browser-style tabs for each task and even divide up your screen with multiple terminal sessions called panes.

In previous versions of Oracle Linux, you might have encountered a similar tool called screen. This tool has been around for years and is still available in the Oracle developer EPEL repository. However, we’ll focus on and explore tmux, which Oracle ships in the base repository.

Objectives

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

Connect and disconnect from a persistent tmux session
Display, hide, and switch between multiple terminals in the same tmux session
Manage several persistent tmux sessions

Prerequisites

Minimum of a single Oracle Linux system
Each system should have Oracle Linux installed and configured with:
- A non-root user account with sudo access
- Access to the Internet