On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:33:05PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 9/12/2010 5:07 PM, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 02:58:01PM -0500, Joshua Isom wrote: > > >>sessions= > >># Check to see if tmux is running, or else sed might stall > >>tmux has-session 1>&2 2>/dev/null > > > >Are you sure this pair of redirections does what you think it does? :-) > > > >You know that if tmux is running you can use choose-session command to > >select a session? > > > >Something like: > > > >(tmux attach\; choose-session) || tmux new > > > >Will attach and let you choose if there are existing sessions, or create > >a new one if not. Although I realise yours does a little more. > > > > > > If tmux isn't running, tmux will print out an error and set the > error code. If I just use the list-sessions line, sed can hang > waiting for input. That line is just to check to see if tmux is > running before risking a hang. There didn't seem to be a better > option in the man page.
No, I meant that 1>&2 2>/dev/null looks unusual, did you really still want stdout (although has-session doesn't output anything to stdout, so it hardly matters much)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
