Bash – How to one set a terminal’s title with the ‘tput’ command

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I discovered through this answer that I've been setting terminal colours in my prompt in a naive way for years.

I've now modified my .bashrc to use 'tput' commands to colourise various elements of my prompt. The one remaining escape code I have is this:

TITLEBAR="\[\033]2; PROD - \u@\h:\w \007\]"

Does anyone know if there is a tput/terminfo attribute I can use to set the title bar of my terminal window, so that I can eliminate that escape?

Best Answer

The actual capabilities are tsl (To Status Line) and fsl (From Status Line), but of course not all terminals have then. In Linux in particular you need to set your terminal to xterm+sl or something similar.

You can test this with

export TERM=xterm+sl
echo `tput tsl` Hello world `tput fsl`; sleep 10

I wouldn't bother and keep those escapes in .bashrc

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SSH – Launch a Screen Session with a Command Over SSH on a Remote Server

Try using the -t option to ssh

ssh -t root@my.machine screen "tail -f /var/log/messages"

From man ssh

-t      Force pseudo-tty allocation.  This can be used to execute arbi-
        trary screen-based programs on a remote machine, which can be
        very useful, e.g., when implementing menu services.  Multiple -t
        options force tty allocation, even if ssh has no local tty.

Bash – How to find the path to an executable in OSX

which will search your path for the arguments you supply, it's found on just about any BSD or SysV UNIX

moriarty:~ dave$ which bash true false
/bin/bash
/usr/bin/true
/usr/bin/false

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