Personally I find the small shell function below really helps my tmux workflow. Run it with no arguments and you'll get a list of available sessions. Run it wit

Personally I find the small shell function below really helps my tmux workflow. Run it with no arguments and you'll get a list of available sessions. Run it with a session name and it will start the session if it doesn't exist or reattach if it does. If you're already in one tmux session, it will just switch over your client to that session. The function below will also automatically detach other clients, but for me it's what I want since other clients are always just me on another machine, often with a different screen size. tm () { if [ -z $1 ] then tmux list-sessions return fi tmux detach -s $1 2> /dev/null if [ -n "${TMUX+1}" ] then tmux switch-client -t $1 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -s $1 else tmux attach-session -t $1 2> /dev/null || tmux new-session -s $1 fi }