Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi folks,

I found a pretty nice thread in this forum showing how to change the window title of a PuTTY window from within the shell. (Which I can't reference due having less than 5 postings?!?)

I modified the solution a bit to have a function in my zshrc "wt()" changing the window title each time I call it to "$(pwd) @ $(hostname)".

Can I somehow connect this wt-call to my cd-command? Defining an alias doesn't work due to "cd" existing as a certain command, I reckon?
Is it possible to modify or overwrite the standard-cd-definition?

I'm sure it is, I probably just didn't find the proper search-keywords?!

Kind regards and many thanks in advance,
Andreas

You don't need this
I guess Your goal is to have refreshed values of $(pwd) and $(hostname) in putty's title?
You can set variable PS1 to execute command every time prompt is being written.
In Your zshrc add

Code:

PS1=$PS1"\$(/path/to/script)"

or if You have defined function wt() before that it could look:

Code:

PS1=$PS1"\$(wt)"

So - every time You change path, or execute command, function wt() will be run.

This surely works for bash, I think it will work for zsh also...

Yes, you got my goal right, thanks.

But unfortunately it doesn't work in zsh as expected.
I just get
prompted in each line.

Ok, in zsh it should look like:

Code:

PS1=$PS1"%$(wt)"

Checked - worked.

Unfortunately I have to disagree again

I get this one prompted in each line now:
Where "/root @ test_mt1" is the "output" of my wt-function. But I don't wann see this in my command line but in my PuTTY window title

What exactly wt function looks like? I thought it has no output... :/

Yep, sorry, that's why I put "output" in quotations. It's no real output.

I fiddled around with that zsh-syntax by myself, but didn't manage to get it working.

Code:

function wt()
{
export WTITLE="$(pwd) @ $(hostname)"
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
    PROMPT_COMMAND="\033]0;${WTITLE}\007"
    echo $PROMPT_COMMAND
    ;;
*)
    ;;
esac
}

With

Code:

PS1=$PS1"%$(wt)"

I get this command-line-prompt:
Many thanks for you patience!