Re: OT: jobname xterm title in bash?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Lance Simmons wrote:

> I'd like to be able to use bash to dynamically print the current job
> name as the xterm title.

I don't know how to do that exactly but recent RH's put this in
/etc/bashrc:

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    if [ "x`tput kbs`" != "x" ]; then # We can't do this with "dumb" terminal
        stty erase `tput kbs`
    fi
    case $TERM in
        xterm*)
            PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
    esac
    PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
..    
..
..

The effect of the above is that the xterm title dynamically changes when
you change user or directory on the remote system to which you're logged
in, or, indeed, in any xterm.  So may be what you what to do is possible
and maybe the above will get you started.

hth

Patrick

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