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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:22:30 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
From: Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
Subject: Re: OK, I'm a newbie in CYGWIN... How to do title?
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Bruce DOT A DOT Petro AT mail DOT sprint DOT com wrote:
> >
> > Can someone share how I perform the equivalent of the NT 'title'
> > command on a CYGWIN window??
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > $title "Logfile1"
> > tail -f logfile1.log
>
> cmd /c title Logfile1

In bash, using:

$ echo -ne "\033]0;logfile1\007"

will also work with rxvt.

And if you're using zsh I'm told that you can set your title for every
command. <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Xterm-Title.html>
-- 
Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
The University of Texas at Austin


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