tmux Copy Mode, Scrollback, and Clipboard/Write the top buffer to a file

Persist copied text to disk.

Section: Copy mode and scrolling

Write the top buffer to a file

bash
bash
tmux save-buffer ~/tmux-buffer.txt
Explanation

Useful after copying logs or diagnostics.

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