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Re: changing bash window title


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sanjay Goel wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Igor,
>> I added this line in my .bashrc
>> function settitle() { echo -n "^[]2;$@^G^[]1;$@^G"; }
>> now when I write settitle sanjay on my $ , it does not change my
>> title .. this is what happens
>>
>> [~]$ settitle sanjay
>> ^[]2;sanjay^G^[]1;sanjay^G[~]$
>> [~]$
>>
>> what is it that I am missing ?
>> Sanjay
>
> The control characters.  ^[ is *one* character, Ctrl-[ (aka ESC).  ^G
> is also *one* character, Ctrl-G (aka BEL).  Fix that, and the
> incantation should work.
> Igor
How do I add these control characters in my .bashrc .. I opened the file in
vim but pressing Ctrl-[ does not work
Sanjay





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