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How to find which Tmux session a process belongs to?

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Mar 15, 20268170 views
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Case in point is editing a configuration file in vim and inadvertently leaving it open. Then you go about your business, switch around in different Tmux sessions, eventually edit the same file from another session and vim will tell you a .swp file already exists. Now, how do you find which Tmux ses…

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will show the process ID of the offending vim process. If you want to write a script, use to get just the process ID. Then where 12345 is the process ID will show some information about the process, in particular what tty it's running on ( in a scri…

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