I don't think we should carry around scripts. I'm not too sure about examples/

at all, nobody is maintaining it...

examples/tmux_backup.sh

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-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# By Victor Orlikowski. Public domain.
-#
-# This script maintains snapshots of each pane's
-# history buffer, for each tmux session you are running.
-# 
-# It is intended to be run by cron, on whatever interval works
-# for you.
-
-# Maximum number of snapshots to keep.
-max_backups=12
-# Names of sessions you may wish to exclude from snapshotting,
-# space separated.
-ignore_sessions=""
-# The directory into which you want your snapshots placed.
-# The default is probably "good enough."
-backup_dir=~/.tmux_backup/snapshot
-
-########################################################################
-
-# Rotate previous backups.
-i=${max_backups}
-while [[ ${i} != 0 ]] ; do
-if [ -d ${backup_dir}.${i} ] ; then
-  if [[ ${i} = ${max_backups} ]] ; then
-    rm -r ${backup_dir}.${i}
-  else
-    mv ${backup_dir}.${i} ${backup_dir}.$((${i}+1))
-  fi
-fi
-i=$((${i}-1))
-done
-
-if [ -d ${backup_dir} ] ; then
-  mv ${backup_dir} ${backup_dir}.1
-fi
-
-## Dump hardcopy from all windows in all available tmux sessions.
-unset TMUX
-for session in $(tmux list-sessions | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/:$//') ; do
-  for ignore_session in ${ignore_sessions} ; do
-    if [ ${session} = ${ignore_session} ] ; then
-      continue 2
-    fi
-  done
-
-  # Session name can contain the colon character (":").
-  # This can screw up addressing of windows within tmux, since
-  # target windows are specified as target-session:target-window.
-  #
-  # We use uuidgen to create a "safe" temporary session name,
-  # which we then use to create a "detached" session that "links"
-  # to the "real" session that we want to back up.
-  tmpsession=$(uuidgen)
-  tmux new-session -d -s "$tmpsession" -t "$session"
-  HISTSIZE=$(tmux show-options -g -t "$tmpsession" | grep "history-limit" | awk '{print $2}')
-  for win in $(tmux list-windows -t "$tmpsession" | grep -v "^\s" | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/:$//'); do
-    session_dir=$(echo "$session" | sed -e 's/ /_/g' | sed -e 's%/%|%g')
-    win_spec="$tmpsession":"$win"
-
-    if [ ! -d ${backup_dir}/${session_dir}/${win} ] ; then
-      mkdir -p ${backup_dir}/${session_dir}/${win}
-    fi
-
-    for pane in $(tmux list-panes -t "$win_spec" | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e 's/:$//'); do
-      pane_path=${backup_dir}/${session_dir}/${win}/${pane}
-      pane_spec="$win_spec"."$pane"
-
-      tmux capture-pane -t "$pane_spec" -S -${HISTSIZE}
-      tmux save-buffer ${pane_path}
-
-      if [ ! -s ${pane_path} ] ; then
-        sleep 1
-        rm ${pane_path}
-      fi
-    done
-  done
-  tmux kill-session -t "$tmpsession"
-
-done