# server.Server.showBuffer

- **Module:** server
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-ts/blob/073b9d7dedad900bff6f5ec0ea47794e40225870/packages/libtmux/src/server.ts#L1438
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/ts/latest/reference/server-server-showbuffer/

```
showBuffer(name: string): Promise<readonly string[]>
```

Read a named paste buffer's contents.

## Examples

```ts
const lines = await server.showBuffer("greeting");
lines[0]; // "hello"
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)

## tmux command

The tmux commands behind `showBuffer`.

- [`show-buffer`](/en/tmux/latest/manual/show-buffer/)

## tmux C API

The C declarations in tmux that implement these commands.

- [`cmd_show_buffer_entry`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-variable-cmd_show_buffer_entry/) (attribute)
- [`cmd_save_buffer_exec`](/en/tmux/latest/reference/c-function-cmd-save-buffer-c-cmd_save_buffer_exec/) (function)

## In other ports

Read a paste buffer's contents

| Language | Equivalent |
| --- | --- |
| Python | [`libtmux.Server.show_buffer`](/en/py/latest/reference/libtmux-server-show_buffer/) (method) |
| Ruby | [`LibTmux::Server#read_buffer`](/en/ruby/latest/reference/libtmux-server-read_buffer/) (method) |
| Lua | [`libtmux.Server:show_buffer`](/en/lua/latest/reference/libtmux-server-show_buffer/) (method) |
| Rust | [`server.Server.buffer`](/en/rs/latest/reference/server-server-buffer/) (method) |
| Go | [`tmux.Server.ShowBuffer`](/en/go/latest/reference/tmux-server-showbuffer/) (method) |
| Java | no equivalent on `Server` |
| C# | [`LibTmux.TmuxBuffers.GetAsync`](/en/csharp/latest/reference/libtmux-tmuxbuffers-getasync/) (method) |
| C++ | no equivalent on `Server` |
| Swift | [`Server.buffer(named:)`](/en/swift/latest/reference/server-buffer(named-)/) (method) |

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