I find tmux to be a very helpful tool for setting up an environment specific to the project I’m working on in a reproducible manner. You can start a named tmux session with the -s flag:

$ tmux new -s blogging

Then create a file with a list of tmux commands, minus the tmux command itself:

rename-session blog
rename-window build
send "jekyll serve --watch --host 0.0.0.0" C-m
split-window -h
send "ifconfig | grep 'inet addr'" C-m
new-window -n vim
send "vim" C-m

From within a tmux shell you can source the file and run the commands:

$ tmux source-file /path/to/.tmuxrc

probably makes more sense to init with a bash script, just as easy to send commands to the tmux server but you can perform setup if necessary

tmux start-server
tmux new-session -d -s blog build
tmux send "jekyll serve --watch --host 0.0.0.0" C-m
tmux split-window -h
tmux send "ifconfig | grep 'inet addr'" C-m
tmux new-window -n vim

Interesting fact from (whiteboardcoder site), format of the -t flag is [session]:[window].[pane], so to create a new session with two horizontal panes on the first window and send a command to tbe bottom pane would look like:

    tmux new -s tail_log -d
    tmux split-window -v -t tail_log
    tmux send-keys -t tail_log:0.1 'echo "pane 1"' C-m

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2015/03/08/dev-project-workspace-tmux/ source a tmux config file once you’ve attached to the server

http://toastdriven.com/blog/2009/oct/09/scripting-tmux/ full example, minimal explanation of bash based tmux scripting

https://gist.github.com/swaroopch/728896 bash tmux scripting with alternate addressing method

http://www.whiteboardcoder.com/2015/01/tmux-scripting.html a more gradual introduction to tmux commands and general window manipulation

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