i frequently have to open multiple putty windows to ssh into a unix server running HP-UX 11.23. Since i use some of the windows for dedicated processes i would like to rename them (the caption displayed in the titlebar) to something more convenient than the standard <Host>.<Server>.com

While researching on how to do this, I came across this site: http://www.mail-archive.com/screen-u.../msg00331.html

This works fine when I run the command from the command line, but I wanted to make a shell script so that I can just say something like 'settitle.sh This is window 1' and it would rename that particular window to "This is window 1"

I made the following script (settitle.sh) for this:

#!/bin/sh

params=$*
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; $params \007"'

alias title='. $SCRIPTS/settitle.sh'

title This is window 1

./settitle.sh This is window 2

The second one is running the script in a child process. Try from the directory that the settile.sh script is in:

. ./settitle.sh This is window 2

brilliant

i should have read the Bash basics before starting off :P

Thanks!

Could you please post your script settitle.sh?

The original link is no longer accessible, and I am having the same issue with SSH.

Thanks a lot in advance,

its up there in my first post, as well as here below now

#!/bin/sh

params=$*
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0; $params \007"'