[ILUG] simple bash question.

[Jason Corcoran]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:03:38PM +0000, Stephen Shirley wrote:
> 
> At a guess, /bin/title works by changing $PS1, and putting the usual 
> special characters into the beginning(/end) of the var. It doesn't have 
> to be done that way however. You can quite happily print the same 
> special characters directly to the terminal and get the same effect. Try 
> something like:
> 
> function settitle()
> {
> 	echo -e '\[\033]0;'$1'\007'
> 	telnet $1
> }
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Steve

Thanks That works perfect.

Jason
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