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Re: bash window title - can I add hostname to it?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Zieg, Mark" <mark.zieg@lmco.com>
To: "'Gord Wait'" <Gord_Wait@spectrumsignal.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: RE: bash window title - can I add hostname to it?


> This does that for me:
>
> export PS1="\[\e]2;\h:\w\007\e[1;36m\]\h [\[\e[1;35m\]\w\[\e[1;36m\]] \u $
> \[\e[1;33m\]"
>
> (Note that you need to have such a prompt on every computer you telnet to,
> as well -- they're the ones that send the ANSI sequences to your terminal
> client to set the title.)

I suppose you can alias telnet, rsh and the likes to change title before
connecting to the remote box.

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gord Wait [mailto:Gord_Wait@spectrumsignal.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: bash window title - can I add hostname to it?
>
>
> I've been starting to use the telnet feature in cygwin's inetutils a lot
> lately,
> and it would be great if I could learn how to set the label of the bash
> window
> to include hostname as well as the current directory it displays now.
> I can't tell which of the two bash windows is which since both are running
a
> 24 hour long FPGA compile..
>
> Is there a way to do this?
> I'd be happy if it was a copy of the "PS1" value..
>
> Gord Wait
>
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