tmux / tmux
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Terminal multiplexer that runs multiple terminal sessions in one screen, detachable and reattachable in the background.
Why you might care
Keeps shell sessions alive after you disconnect over SSH and lets you split and manage many terminal panes from one window. Written in C, it runs on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, macOS and Solaris, with configuration via a plain text file.
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LanguageC
LicenseISC
Created2015-06-03 (11y ago)
Last push1d ago
Watchers488
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Links
- GitHub: github.com/tmux/tmux
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