Passing command line arguments

[Robb Hendershot]

Is there any way to pass command line arguments through from invocation into a particular pane in the script? I would like to specify a server to ssh to using something like tmuxifier load-window debug servername and as part of the window creation pass the "servername" to ssh in a pane. Here is a test script I wrote -

new_window "debug"
split_h 30
split_v 50
run_cmd "htop"  2   # runs in active pane
run_cmd "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages" 3
run_cmd "echo vars :: $# :: $0 :: $1 :: $2 :: $3" 1
select_pane 1

Using the command above to invoke it I would expect "servername" to show up somewhere in the echo statement but I get nothing except the name of the window-

vars :: 1 :: /sysadmin/home/rdhender/.tmuxifier/libexec/tmuxifier-load-window :: debug :: ::  

I LOVE tmuxifier by the way, thank you for creating it!

[Jim Myhrberg]

There's nothing like that at the moment, but you might be able to use environment variables. I've never tried this myself, though, so don't hold me to it :)

Basically invoke tmuxifier like so:

SERVERNAME=foobar tmuxifier load-window debug

And then do something like this in the window layout file:

run_cmd "echo $SERVERNAME"

If it works correctly, your new session will start with echoing foobar. Please let me know if it works or doesn't work :)

Off the top of my head I think it might at least work if the tmuxifier call actually starts a new tmux server, but if it's just connecting to an existing server I'm not sure if the env is forwarded.

I'll have a think about passing additional arguments to layout files. Off the top of my head I think it can get rather confusing and impractical when session layouts that themselves are loading window layouts are thrown into the mix though. We'll see :)