Change gnome-terminal title to reflect the current directory?

gnome-terminal
okkhoy picture okkhoy · May 9, 2012 · Viewed 24k times · Source

I want to change the title of the gnome-terminal window to reflect the current directory. Is there a way to do that? A script may be? The "change terminal title" threads did not help much. Manually when we use the command:

gnome-terminal --title=$PWD

it works, but a new terminal instance is created (as expected). I want to be able to use the 

--title=$PWD

with the cd command.

Is there a way to achieve that?

Answer

dwalter picture dwalter · May 9, 2012

since gnome-terminal uses the same control commands as xterm this page might be helpful.

Xterm Title for bash and other shells

TL;DR:

add following to your .bashrc

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

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