Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote: > > A while ago, somebody in this forum posted how to make the current > working directory appear on the title bar in an xterm. I lost that > article somehow; could the author repost it? Thanks in advance... >
Well, you should have RTFMpage, but here's the excerpt you want: a command. Bash allows these prompt strings to be cus tomized by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special characters that are decoded as follows: \t the current time in HH:MM:SS format \d the date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26") \n newline \s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash) \w the current working directory \W the basename of the current working direc tory \u the username of the current user \h the hostname \# the command number of this command \! the history number of this command \$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $ \nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn \\ a backslash \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal con trol sequence into the prompt \] end a sequence of non-printing characters -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .