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Old 08-31-2011
translate this string

Hi,
I'm using code below to assign title for Putty Window to show user@hostname+curr directory.
Trying to read this "write only" language, can anybody help me to go thru this string, too many thing in it I can't expaing

Tx
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Code:
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'


Last edited by Franklin52; 08-31-2011 at 05:03 AM.. Reason: Corrected code tags
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Old 08-31-2011
Take a look at the Linux documentation project's document on xterm title bar mainpulation
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