While in hacking mood (read Terminal mode), I often end up using multiple terminal tabs. Switching between the tabs are a little pain as every terminal (at least, those I know of) set their title to some non-sense static text. I wanted to have the title showing the current path so that I don’t have to switch between all of them to find the tab I’m looking for. After spending an hour or so, I came up with something as simple as this. Google wasn’t that much helpful to find this out easily.

Append the following lines to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or whatever your are using for dumping your bash configs.

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settitle () 


{ 


 echo -ne "\033]0;${PWD/$HOME/~}\007" 


} 




PROMPT_COMMAND=settitle


export PROMPT_COMMAND

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