select-window -t:foo
But note that foo will follow the normal rules to match window names, so
if you want it to be only exact match you will need to have a script to
find it from lsw like what you have, although I suggest you use
#{window_id} not #{window_index}.
If you don't care about exact matching you can just do eg
tmux selectw -t:foo 2>/dev/null || tmux neww -nfoo
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:59:41PM -0800, Anthony Molinaro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to figure out if there is a way to select a window by its
> name programmatically. Specifically, I want a shell script that does
> the following
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> window=$1
>
> if <some command to determine if the named window exists> ; then
> <some command to connect to window>
> else
> tmux new-window -n $window
> fi
>
> It seems like for the first command, I can use tmux list-windows with a
> format which includes window name like this
>
> window_id=`tmux list-windows -F "#{window_index} #{window_name}" | grep
> $window |
> cut -f 1`
> if test -n "$window_id" ; then
> <some command to connect to window>
> else
> tmux new-window -n $window
> fi
>
> But I still don't know if there's away to switch to a window by id. The
> closest command I can find is select-window but that seems to only allow
> selection by last, next and previous.
>
> I also see find-window which seems like what I would want but it needs
> to be run interactively and I'd like to do this with a script.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Anthony
>
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