Things I forget: tmux for headless SSH use

Quick reference for using tmux to run long-running SSH commands
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Author

Patrick Baylis

Published

September 11, 2018

How to run something through SSH that takes a long time without having to stay logged in:

  1. Log into ssh
  2. Execute tmux
  3. Type command
  4. CTRL-b d to detach tmux. You can exit ssh.
  5. When returning to server, execute tmux attach

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