Here is a script that works in bash or ksh for setting the title based on
your current path, by setting up $PS1. I have also seen similar thing done
by aliasing "cd" command
I use bash mostly, but for ksh there is need for Perl in my script below to
accomplish the passing of ESC characters to ksh. I could not figure out how
to do it with awk
-Robert
case "`echo "_$0" | /usr/bin/tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sed -e 's/^_//'`"
in
#############################################################################
bash | -bash | */bash )
#############################################################################
echo "...running bash"
HOSTNAME=`hostname`; export HOSTNAME # Set a HOSTNAME variable
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 29=white,30=black,31=red,32=green,33=yellow, 34=blue,35=magenta,36=cyan
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Set a default prompt of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and current_directory
# PS1='\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ '
# PS1='\[\e]0;$HOSTNAME: $PWD\a\]\[\e[36m\]$PWD>\[\e[0m\] ' # (in
title) HOST-$PWD ... $PATH
PS1='\[\e]0;$ME: $PWD\a\]$PWD> ' # (in title) HOST-$PWD ... $PATH
;;
#############################################################################
ksh* | -ksh* | */ksh* )
#############################################################################
echo "...running ksh"
typeset -l HOSTNAME # Set a HOSTNAME variable
PS1=$(perl -e 'printf"\033]0;$ARGV[0]: \$PWD\007\033[29m\$PWD>\033[0m\
"' $ME)
;;
esac
From: "Ehud Karni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to add a title to xterm
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:43:29 +0200
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 06:54:41 -0000, fergus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > How to add a title to xterm?
>
> I do not use startx: for me, it sets up unnecessary or inconvenient
> defaults.
You can always set the xterm title by sending it the string: Esc ] 0 ;
<your title> ^G . You can do it from the xterm application (writing to
/dev/tty or stdout if its connected, or externally, by writing to
/dev/tty<n> [Cygwin] or /dev/pts/<n> [Linux]).
Bellow is a small script that update the title if it is run on an
interactive xterm (the 2nd is a tty emulator written here).
Ehud
#! /bin/sh -e
# this script sets the TTY title to 1st argument
# --------------------------------------------------
if [ -t 1 ] ; then # do only if stdout is
terminal
TTL=`echo "$1" | sed -e "s/ [ ]*/ /g"` # any length of spaces to 1
space
case "$TERM" in
xter* ) echo "\033]0;$TTL\a\c" # write it to xterm window
title
;;
npc* ) DTTL=`echo "$TTL\c" | od -An -tu1 -v | tr "\012" " " | sed
-e "s/ [ ]*/;/g"`
echo "\033[=/${DTTL:1:999};253;t\c" # For Mivtach Simon
TTY
;;
esac
fi
############################## set_tty_title ##############################
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