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The Tao of tmux: and Terminal Tricks
Is it safe to ditch the GUI and IDE? Or maybe you could get an instant optimization to your workflow right now, with great potential to pay off down the road as you utilize new features. Learn to navigate the world to the terminal using the tool depended on daily by thousands of system administrators and programmers.
118 pages, Paperback
Published January 24, 2017
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October 22, 2017
Needs an editor
The book provides a what I believe to be a thorough review of tmux, but the writing style is too informal and unstructured for my taste.
The book provides a what I believe to be a thorough review of tmux, but the writing style is too informal and unstructured for my taste.
May 27, 2023
I have read this all the way through about 3 times and used it for a reference for many months. Great read for a first time tmux user. Helped me get setup and acclimated quickly. I didn't like all the tmux commands for typing as i prefer the shortcuts and key bindings. On first read i thought it was glossed over, but he had it in there on subsequent reads. Some of the code formatting did not translate and format properly for ebook, but i got the gist, not really the authors fault. Now, after using tmux 6+ mo as a daily driver and more advanced user i wish there was some stuff more for me and my workflow which is different, but its all good still. Thank you.
May 24, 2019
Not a particular pleasant read, but the style is clear and there are no flourishings. Also the structure is very precise.
October 9, 2020
Even though it is stylistically a mess, I still found it a nice intro into ``book smarts'' of tmux. Made the ways of tmux clear for me in a handful of pages.
August 29, 2022
A little messy. Most suitable if you sorta knew what "tmux" is, have tried using it half a dozen times, but have yet to know majority of the available commands.
June 24, 2019
Well written. It's now my goto reference for tmux
November 3, 2025
TL;DR - A hardcore geek book for users of Tmux, who, I would suggest are, by definition, hardcore geeks!
Tmux is not something a lot of computer users will have come across. If you favour an operating system that encourages using the command line then you may be keen to make the most of your 'shell'. One way to do this in a windowed system is to have multiple windows, each with a shell running in it, but Tmux is a better way.
Tmux describes itself as a terminal multiplexer, which means having multiple terminal sessions running within a single window. If that sentence has you scratching your head, then this book probably isn't for you. But if that sounds interesting then this book is for you.
Tmux is not something a lot of computer users will have come across. If you favour an operating system that encourages using the command line then you may be keen to make the most of your 'shell'. One way to do this in a windowed system is to have multiple windows, each with a shell running in it, but Tmux is a better way.
Tmux describes itself as a terminal multiplexer, which means having multiple terminal sessions running within a single window. If that sentence has you scratching your head, then this book probably isn't for you. But if that sounds interesting then this book is for you.
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