# server.Server.listBuffers

- **Module:** server
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-ts/blob/073b9d7dedad900bff6f5ec0ea47794e40225870/packages/libtmux/src/server.ts#L1465
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/ts/latest/reference/server-server-listbuffers/

```
listBuffers(): Promise<readonly string[]>
```

Every buffer name this server holds.

## Examples

```ts
const names = await server.listBuffers();
names.length;
```

## tmux command

The tmux commands behind `listBuffers`.

- [`list-buffers`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/list-buffers/)

## tmux C API

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

- [`cmd_list_buffers_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_list_buffers_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_list_buffers_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-list-buffers-c-cmd_list_buffers_exec/) (function)

## In other ports

List the paste buffers

| Language | Equivalent |
| --- | --- |
| Python | [`libtmux.Server.list_buffers`](/en/py/latest/reference/libtmux-server-list_buffers/) (method) |
| Ruby | [`LibTmux::Server#list_buffers`](/en/ruby/latest/reference/libtmux-server-list_buffers/) (method) |
| Rust | [`server.Server.buffer_names`](/en/rs/latest/reference/server-server-buffer_names/) (method) |
| Go | [`tmux.Server.ListBuffers`](/en/go/latest/reference/tmux-server-listbuffers/) (method) |
| Java | [`io.github.libtmux.Server.buffers`](/en/java/latest/reference/io-github-libtmux-server-server-buffers/) (method) |
| C# | [`LibTmux.TmuxBuffers.GetAllAsync`](/en/csharp/latest/reference/libtmux-tmuxbuffers-getallasync/) (method) |
| C++ | [`libtmux::Server::buffers`](/en/cxx/latest/reference/libtmux-server-buffers/) (method) |
| Swift | [`Server.buffers()`](/en/swift/latest/reference/server-buffers()/) (method) |

No equivalent is recorded in Lua, PowerShell, Julia, Elixir, Kotlin, Scala or F#.