Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host

[Malte Skoruppa]

Hi,

thanks for the tip with the 'command ssh' instead of /ust/bin/ssh 
trick... didn't know about that.

I quickly hacked this script into my ~/.profile a while ago, so it may 
not be that beautiful from a cosmetic point of view. Indeed I can leave 
out the semicolons, they're just still there because this was a 
one-liner to begin with ;)

I do 'revert' my screen title after the ssh command terminates. I just 
don't revert it to the local hostname, but always set the title to the 
current directory (at least, to the last 20 characters of $PWD) :-)

This is also in my ~/.profile
The PROMPT_COMMAND from bash is executed each time after any command was 
executed. As this is really executed each and every time, it needs to be 
lightning fast - that's why I coded it entirely in bash. Yes, I know I 
could theoretically use sed or perl or whatever... ;-)

PROMPT_COMMAND='
if [ $TERM = "screen" ]; then
MYPWD="${PWD/#$HOME/~}"
[ ${#MYPWD} -gt 20 ] && MYPWD=..${MYPWD:${#MYPWD}-18}
echo -n -e "\033k$MYPWD\033\\"
fi
'

Cheers,

Malte

Gokdeniz Karadag schrieb:
> Hi, in your script, it would be better to revert it back to local 
> hostname after ssh finishes.
>
> Both this and LocalCommand seems neat, too bad that I have solved it 
> by manually setting PS1 on all machines :)
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:25:00 +0100
> From: Malte Skoruppa <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Setting window title in ssh'ed host
> To: address@hidden
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>
> Hi,
>
> I solved the problem in bash by editing my ~/.profile file:
>
> ssh() {
>  args=$@
>  echo -ne "\033k${args##* }\033\\";
>  /usr/bin/ssh "$@";
> }
>
> It"s a rather simple script, whenever you call ssh, first this script is
> executed, which calls the real ssh in the end, with the same arguments.
> Before it does that, however, it sets the screen title to the last
> argument of the ssh command. Usually, this is the hostname, at least for
> the way I enter commands ;-)
>
> Malte
>
>
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