Multiple commands running in a single shell (windows in tmux)

I'll just jump straight to it. Sometimes, your app needs a lot of commands running.

You're probably running babel on your Javascript, using react-native start, running gulpfiles and gruntfiles and webpacks and whatever other new JS build systems there are, and you've got your test suite running and there's some CSS pre-processing and..

The list goes on. You're probably running a lot of commands that just need to.. run, and sometimes you'll need to check their output.

Does that mean you need a million terminal windows open? No. You just need one, and a terminal multiplexer.

Enter tmux.

tmux is the tool you need. It allows you to do all sorts of things in a single shell. We'll cover the absolute basics here, but there's a lot more to know:

• To start, Ctrl-b takes you into the command mode. The next bullet points all require you to be in command mode.
• c creates a new window
• n takes you to the next window
• p takes you to the previous window
• & deletes the current window

In each window, you can have a command running (you can actually run more, but you need to know more about tmux). You can only view one window at a time and you use the commands above to cycle through them.

That's all for now!

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