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Thanks for the clarification Ygor. Your help is greatly appreciated.

It's explanations like these that really help users out.

Cheers!

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I've had a look at man ascii and I can rewrite my script thusly

Code:

echo "\033]0;$*\007"

as CTRL-G is just ascii BEL (\007).

Learn something new every day!

Cheers Ygor!

Peace
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