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Pair programming with Tmux

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Pair programming with Tmux

Using the same user

User 1

SSH into the box
```
 user1@user1-machine$ ssh user@host
```

Start a tmux session with a name

 user@remote-machine$ tmux new -s <session_name>

User 2

SSH into the box
```
 user2@user2-machine$ ssh user@host
```

Join the session created by User 1

 user@remote-machine$ tmux a -t <session_name>

Using different users

User 1

SSH into box
```
 user1@user1-machine$ ssh user1@host
```

Create a tmux session as a file and set its permissions

 user1@remote-machine$ tmux -S /tmp/pair -d -s pair
 user1@remote-machine$ chmod 777 /tmp/pair

Join session

 user1@remote-machine$ tmux -S /tmp/pair attach

User 2

SSH into box
```
 user2@user2-machine$ ssh user2@host
```

Join session created by User 1

 user2@remote-machine$ tmux -S /tmp/pair attach

Credits to Flaviu Simihaian and Chris Hunt from where these are taken.

abcdw commented Jun 19, 2017

Take a look at https://tmate.io/ and wemux

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