Thanks, I actually meant window_id, but wrote window_index. I will try this
out.
-Anthony
On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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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