gnome-terminal

Change gnome-terminal title to reflect the current directory?

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?

Solution

  • 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"'