Change gnome-terminal title to reflect the current directory?

gnome-terminal

Solution

since gnome-terminal uses the same control commands as xterm this page might be helpful.

Xterm Title for bash and other shells

TL;DR:

add following to your .bashrc

`PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'`

Problem

I want to change the title of the gnome-terminal window to reflect the current directory. Is there a way to do that? A script may be? The "change terminal title" threads did not help much. Manually when we use the command: ``` gnome-terminal --title=$PWD ``` it works, but a new terminal instance is created (as expected). I want to be able to use the ``` --title=$PWD ``` with the cd command. Is there a way to achieve that?

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