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Now it's time to switch gears, we are onto a different part of our day and there are just too many sessions running and we need to clean up shop.
kill-server
One viable option is to nuke the whole dang thing. I actually do this more than you might think.
tmux kill-server
save and commit your work diligently before
kill-server
kill-session
A more reasonable option might be to kill a single session.
# kills the current session tmux kill-session # kills the session named scratch tmux kill-session -t scratch
choose-tree
Killing sessions one by one from the command line can be a bit tedious, and
involve more keystrokes than necessary. Another option built right into tmux
is choose-tree. By default choose-tree is bound to prefix+s, that's
pressing control+b then s. Once you are in choose-tree, you can navigate
around with your configured navigation scheme, press x to kill a session, or
pane or window then y to confirm. You can also batch delete by tagging items
with t, and killing them all at once with X.
check out this post for a bit more information on choose-tree
fuzzy matcher
Here is my preferred way, using a fuzzy matcher. I recently improved this one by making it a popup and cleaning it up based on a repsonse, tmux-output-formatting by DJ Adams. I press prefix+k to bring up a kill-session menu.
bind k display-popup -E "\ tmux list-sessions -F '#{?session_attached,,#{session_name}}' |\ fzf --reverse -m --header=kill-session |\ xargs -I {} tmux kill-session -t {}"
note this is setup to multiple sessions all at once.
for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post
Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.