(Replace 'n' by the actual character you use when creating a new window.) If I understand correctly, you want that between the time you run my-script /some/dir and the time you run my-script /some/other/dir you want every new window to open in directory /some/dir. In this case, the command output will remain until you press Enter in the pane, and then it will automatically close. I think one solution would be: tmux bind n new-window -c '/the/dir/you/want'. Here you use the shell read command to wait for a user-input newline after the main command has finished. The command is run with sh -c, and you can exploit that to make the window stay alive at the end: tmux split-window 'ping -c 3 127.0.0.1 read' If you don't want to change the overall options, there is another approach. The pane will remain open after ping finishes, but be marked 'dead' until you close it manually. Note that the order is important - the command has to come after any of those preceding options that appear, and it has to be a single argument, so you need to quote it if it has spaces.įor commands like ping -c that terminate quickly, you can set the remain-on-exit option first: tmux set-option remain-on-exit on (from man tmux, section 'Windows and Panes').

The split-window command has the following syntax: split-window [-t

Tmux new window