Articles by Chris Janton

Make this file in your home directory – call it “term_banner”

#!/bin/sh
echo -ne “\033]0;$1\007″

make sure that the file is protected by a
chmod +x term_banner

now add this alias to your .bash_profile -

alias termb=~/term_banner

now invoke it like this

termb “Some Title”

Here’s the VMS command procedure that you want…

$ esc[0,8]=27
$ bell[0,8]=7
$ write sys$output “”esc’]0;”p1”’bell’”

Remember the first argument to the command is used – enclose it in quotes.
so like this

@term_banner “”F$getjpi(0,”USERNAME”)’ – ”F$TRNLNM(“SYS$NODE”)’”

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for bash with GLTerm and/or Apple Terminal

Please note – this doesn’t work on windows that are connected via SSH, but the prompt seems to work properly.

I just use the alias term_banner to get the window name changed.

alias term_banner='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'

case "$TERM_PROGRAM" in
    Apple_Terminal)
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
    export PS1='\! \$ '
    ;;
    GLterm)
    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
    export PS1='\! \$ '
    ;;
    *)
    export PS1='\u@\h:\W:\! \$ '
    ;;
esac

That’s in .bash_profile for any that care.