Scripting tmux

Post by GordonS » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 11:21 AM UTC

3xblah wrote: post #7

This comment was posted using tmux scripting, as follows: set -x send(){ tmux send "$@";} send 'links -no-connect https://news.ycombinator.com/login?goto=news' ; send c-m; sleep 2; send 3xblah c-m $HNPASSWORD c-m c-m c-m; sleep 2; send Escape; sleep 1; send V S; sleep 1; send 'scripting tmux' c-m Down Down Down Down Down Down c-m; send Escape; sleep 1; send V S; sleep 1; send 'add comment' c-m Up; send 'This comment…

Post by 3xblah » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #12

GordonS wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, I had no idea you could script tmux like that! Reminds me of "expect", which I've used to automate interactive SSH sessions with network devices.

Replacing the sleeps with calls to "tmux capture-pane" to parse the responses would be closer to expect.

  case $1 in
  ""|-b|-E|-S|-t)
  tmux capturep $@ --;
  tmux showb $@ --;
  exec tmux dele --;
  esac

Post by tyingq » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

tjoff wrote: post #9

Just this night I was thinking if whether tmux scripting could be abused to get it to work like zmodem. Sending files from the system with the tmux session to whatever machine one had sshd into (and ideally the other direction as well). Anyone know of this or a better approach?

Post by tjoff » Sat, Jan 04, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #15

tjoff wrote: post #9

Just this night I was thinking if whether tmux scripting could be abused to get it to work like zmodem. Sending files from the system with the tmux session to whatever machine one had sshd into (and ideally the other direction as well). Anyone know of this or a better approach?

Tmux has pipe-pane, and it has -I and -O to go both directions. It does require some gyrations to get around the fact that it logs everything (the command itself, terminal control, etc), and not just what's output by the command. Here's a quick and dirty example: a) Start a tmux session to a remote host b) On the local host, run this (assuming session 0): $ tmux pipe-pane -o -t0 "tail -n +2 | col -b | base64 -d > ~/o…

Post by abcdef123xyz2 » Sun, Jan 05, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

3xblah wrote: post #13

tyingq wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Replacing the sleeps with calls to "tmux capture-pane" to parse the responses would be closer to expect.

Brainless method I use to check the panel: case $1 in ""|-b|-E|-S|-t) tmux capturep $@ --; tmux showb $@ --; exec tmux dele --; esac Also there is a "-N repeat count" option for send-keys in newer versions of tmux.