Re: Dynamic Title

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Asif Iqbal wrote:

> This is what I have done on the screen server to achieve dynamic title.
>
> in .bashrc :
>
> PROMPT_COMMAND='if [ $TERM = "screen" ]; then printf
> "\033k${HOSTNAME%%.*}\033\\" ; fi'
>
> in .ssh/config :
> # this won't work unless your screen server has openssh 5.1 or above
> host *
>   PermitLocalCommand   yes
>   LocalCommand /path/to/screen_ssh.sh %n
>
>
> in screen_ssh.sh :
> # got the idea from http://www.tenshu.net/screen_ssh/

Why would you tie this to your ssh command at all?

I have a postcmd in my shell like this (this is tcsh):

alias postcmd   'printf "\033%s%s %s %s\033\\" "k" "\!#:0" "\!#:$" "[$HOST]"'

What this means is: give me the first and last bits of any command I type 
in my shelltitle (you'll find those are the important ones).

which gives me:  ssh address@hidden [prime.gushi.org] when I ssh into 
systems that do NOT have a similar csh prompt.

If I ssh into another system that has the same shell setup, I get:

usr/local/bin/irc irc.prison.net [oldprime.gushi.org] as my title

This requires no special ssh privileges, works with ANY command, and works 
even if you ssh from system a --> b --> c.

-Dan


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