I want to make a shell alias that starts a certain program and also changes the title of the terminal to the name of the program. How can I do that?
In case it matters, I am running the terminal on Ubuntu and connecting to a Debian server via ssh.
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Method 1
In Bash, I use the following trap command in the last line of my .bashrc to echo all commands to the titlebar.
# trap commands and echo them to xterm titlebar. Must be last line.
trap 'echo -ne "33]0;$BASH_COMMAND <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="04205157415644">[email protected]</a>${HOSTNAME}>$(pwd)07"' DEBUG
So if you execute sleep 10, you will see your titlebar change to sleep 10 for the duration of the command, after which it will change back to [email protected]>pwd.
Method 2
Most terminals recognize a certain escape sequence as an attempt to change the title, so this will work:
$ alias foo-with-title='echo -ne "33]0;foo07"; foo'
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